I’ll be emailing the site admin… or some contact at the site, but, is there anything else that can be done to try to put pressure on these websites that tell me “you’re not getting the best experience… download Chrome.”?
I know Firefox has a “Report a broken site” feature, but, the site isn’t technically broken. They’re just telling me to switch browsers.
Close the tab.
What a privileged life to lead, where you aren’t forced to use certain websites by (e.g.) your student loan servicer, or your utility company
Well, I submitted a “support” request:
For whatever it’s worth - I’m disappointed to see that XXX is pushing for its customers to download Chrome rather than ensure that their website supports proper web standards. A website that supports web standards will work well on all browsers and will save you from trying to pressure your customers into changing their preferred browser.
Thank you for your time (and, this is my personal opinion, not the opinion of the organization I’m here supporting).
NotAnArdvark
I’d still report as broken. Fuck em
Spoof your user agent as chrome, test that it works with Firefox.
If it does report a bug.
User agent switcher has fixed those issues 9/10 times for me.
I’ve also had times websites like Outlook or Youtube just run faster after lying to them about using Edge/Chrome…
This is what I do. Works 9 out of 10 times.
The notice means they know about the problem but don’t care enought to fix it, probably because of economic reasons. The only “pressure” you can exert is to try to make them care again, by not using their site and by promoting Firefox to your peers.
You could try posting on https://webcompat.com/ to report sites that insist on using another browser or sites broken on your browser.
How this service works? They try to contact the website owner?
It’s a volunteer undertaking. Basically people volunteer to report, triage and communicate the issues. If any bug is confirmed to be a browser bug or a website bug, then some volunteers will create a ticket on the browser or websites support sites.
Again there is no guarantee that all issues will get resolved but it’s a good place to see if the issue is widespread.
My bank did this a few years ago. I bank somewhere else now.
Use a user-agent switcher
fucking lazy developers …
Don’t use the website then
My favorite situation that happened few times already was when I sent a link to webpage that worked for me in firefox with no problem to someone using chrome and it told them to use chrome.
Also email them that they need to support Tor Browser, for users who live in oppressive countries to be able to access their content
Search for webcompat
Never had this happen to me. Not sure if it’s my browsing habits or something with my setup (basic if you ask me), but I’ve never encoutered such sites.
