What the heck is this trash shipping with firefox? about:compat - eviltoast

Visit about:compat in your firefox. I find it insane that these exist.

Edit: I’ve learned that this is part of the webcompat system addon developed by Mozilla and other contributors. I see why this is beneficial default behavior, since FF has no chance of getting enough market share to matter more if things are broken.

However, this behavior is too intrusive for my taste. For example this injection: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/8a4afb4d34f8/browser/extensions/webcompat/injections/js/bug1472075-bankofamerica.com-ua-change.js is basically just to silence annoying user reports.

Also, Every site FF pretends to be a different UA on is artificially reducing FF market share data.

  • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1. Why is this trash? It’s making websites that are hostile work properly?
    2. The example you linked literally doesn’t reduce FFs marketshare. It’s a fix for a website that’s hostile towards macOS and Linux users, by pretending to be FF on Windows…