Everything worked perfectly as it always does.
No, Firefox doesn’t have bugs with your store. Your store has bugs.
“Firefox’s privacy features interferes with our trackers”
“Morningwitch”
Classy to blame Firefox for bugs in their code :)
If devs write code for Chrome, yeah, maybe then it doesn’t work in Firefox guys…
We had exactly this situation in the 90s with internet Explorer… But new devs need to relearn lessons of course.
It was different in the case of IE though. It was actually atrocious and not standards compliant in many many ways.
Today, chrome and FF both support standards fairly well and when things don’t work in FF it’s usually either that you wrote fragile code, or there’s a slight difference from chrome that technically isn’t a standards compliance issue. Testing in both of those browsers isn’t hard and should be the norm. I’ve had projects where I had to test in IE, chrome windows, chrome android, FF, safari Mac, safari iPad OS, and safari iOS all at the same time. And yes there are differences between those last two, because apple makes a shitty web browser.
If you can’t test in two browsers, you’re just a bad web developer…
Absolutely this, nothing but pure laziness. I had a really weird specific issue on iOS Safari with one of my projects, and I own literally nothing Apple. Instead of just accepting shits fucked on iOS, I got my hands on a borrowed Mac so I could use xCode and actually find the issue.
…then again, that project ended up dead in the water at like 95% completion and I never got paid for the work I’d already finished, so maybe the joke IS on me and I should’ve been a lazy fuck.
Sounds like you might want to add some sort of terms of agreement to your estimates. I built sites that never saw the light of day, but that is entirely up to the client. A site not being live doesn’t mean my client doesn’t need to pay me.
It was for a family friend who is disabled and unable to work a normal job, so me and my brother(also a dev on this) agreed to be paid on project completion. Long story short, she wasn’t able to pay so the final bug fixes were never done, and the code has been left to rot. Under different circumstances I’d be putting pressure to get at least some payment, but it’s pointless imo.
Lesson learned though, not doing that again.
firefox has a lot of bugs with our store
Well, I think you got that backwards.
At least they seem to be working on it. Directing Firefox users to use a different browser in the mean time, temporarily, seems reasonable even if the language on that popup is a bit imprecise.
I did try adding a shirt to the cart and yeah, it added the wrong size. I’d have to switch to chrome to successfully complete an order at the moment. It’s unfortunate, but as long as they’re trying to fix it I don’t see any point in feeling outraged.
I did try adding a shirt to the cart and yeah, it added the wrong size. I’d have to switch to chrome to successfully complete an order at the moment. It’s unfortunate, but as long as they’re trying to fix it I don’t see any point in feeling outraged.
As a software developer, if just trying to add a single item to a cart is buggy, then that’s definitely something to feel outraged about, software development wise (not literally outraged, but definitely a strong “WTF!?” response).
It’s actually really amazing that a bug would manifest in one browser and not another, when just adding an item to a cart. You have to work really hard to make something like that not work correctly.
Yeah seriously, what is so special about what they’re doing here that it has a browser-specific bug?
This isn’t like 20 years ago where browsers had tons of experimental and custom extensions to HTML and JavaScript in them. It’s all standard now.
- Just visited the site with FF, and got no such error. It’s a Shopify site, and I’m sceptical.
- If it’s a typical Shopify SBO, it could easily be a single person - the owner - working out of their house. There is no developer, except those employed by Shopify.
The owner probably populated the store themselves; the entirety rest of their computer experience brobably consists of browsing Wiccan forums, Instagram, and Twitter. And yet, they figured out how to open an online shop and start a business doing something they’re passionate about.
Educated guesses, but poking around a bit on the site & following links gives good evidence this person is a person, not a company, and doesn’t employ anyone, much less programmers.
And I’ve never had a Shopify site pop up a message like this. I think OP hit a fluke, or a MITM, or (most likely) has a virus.
I just visited with FF and got the error. Looking at the console, Firefox complains about some cookies misusing specific site attributes and actively rejects some cookies from that website entirely. That might be the source of the issue with the site’s “developer.”
Correction: your store has a lot of known bugs with Firefox
That’s a very weird of saying “we use a lot of non-standard code practices in our software”.
Use Ublock Origin and remove the banner. Bad banners dont actually block anything.
“Hey there, we can’t build a functional website, but just go ahead and give us your email address. MK?”
lmao write your website better then. That popup sure looks like its working
“Hello! If you are the operator of this site, it has known bugs with browsers other than chrome. Please consider doing your job and building for use cases other than the majority one when making your website, because it is 2024 and not 1994. If you are unable to, then consider using simpler website builders like Squarespace, which are known to work across a number of browsers. Thanks!”
It’s not super difficult to just make a standards compliant website. I always wonder how in this day and age people manage to create professional websites with browser specific bugs.
There’s likely zero bugs, but Firefox has more ways to block ads and trackers from affecting you, which is likely to real reason they don’t want it being used.
Absolutely no capitalization? That always makes me back away. You can’t even be bothered to make a proper sentence?
It’s a writing style. I like it. I even turn off auto-capitalization on my phone keyboard so my chats are all lowercase.
Chiming in to say that I agree with you! Texting in lowercase just feels right to me, especially with friends and family.
I don’t agree with you. But damn. you’re downvoted for doing what you like.
“a lot of known bugs”
Our storefront was coded with bloated javascript, runs like shit, and Chrome and Edge are good at hiding how bad it is :)
I’ve tested Firefox’s performance recently and it’s gotten super close to Blink/V8 in terms of performance, it even works better than those on my machine. So even if the website is coded like a turd there ain’t much reason anymore it wouldn’t work perfectly fine on Firefox
Unless you’re doing something really fucked with the code that I can’t think of right now
I’ve tested Firefox’s performance recently and it’s gotten super close to Blink/V8 in terms of performance, it even works better than those on my machine.
Same. In fact, I originally switched back to Firefox on my personal machine specifically because Chrome was making my laptop sound like an airplane taking off, even with only a single tab open. After the switch, I was able to open multiple tabs and even run other programs at the same time without a problem.
Come for the speed, stay for the privacy.
Or you’re deliberately making it slow when you detect someone visiting your site from Firefox
Thanks, YouTube
Everyone browse that website and when they see the traffic all using firefox. They will get the message.
Quite the opposite - no one browse that site because it’s not standards compliant and/or privacy compliant.
Best of all worlds: browse the site, create an order, don’t purchase anything.
“Why are all of these people abandoning their cart?”
“I don’t know, but they’re all Firefox users.”
“Ugh, friggin nerds”
if you can’t even be arsed to fix your website i certainly can’t be arsed to buy from you
