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Comment by ktjfi | Hacker News Reader

Not supporting Safari is weird, but not supporting Firefox is perfectly normal, given that it's at a whopping 4.46% of market share in the US.

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"Not supporting" and "Deliberately blocking user agents" are two completely different things though.

They simply don't want to read any bug reports from Firefox users because they don't want to support that browser.

That is the most likely explanation. "It killed our precioussss IE, we hates it, we hates it!"

Firefox's market share is presumably comparable to safari on desktop, and edge which is supported.

For desktop, where one would use this, it is 8%

Whereas Edge has...oh wait. Yet there it is - supported.

It’s even weirder than that: it’s discontinued and supported.

I can’t find any source saying Firefox market share is below 8% in the US on desktop. Can you cite your stat.

StatCounter has Firefox at 7.63% in North America on Desktop. That puts it just behind Edge in usage too.

http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/north...

Specify just US as the thread is about that and it is back to 8%. Still behind Edge. Which isn’t surprising. http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/unite...

It wouldn be interesting to see an evening, past work hours, US/Canada browser split. I would assume IE would tank vs being in 2nd. Edge would probably go down too though not as much.

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