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i use firefox on android, mostly because of adblocking, and the number of broken websites on firefox is not small, the menu on the mobile website of my bank does not work in firefox.

it's shit and i consider changing banks because of that (and other things).

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I only use firefox (for work, will test in Safari and Brave), have been doing so for years, and waste waaaay too much time browsing.

I almost never have issues, so maybe it is your plugins that are causing issues (or maybe android ff is different than ff for Mac?)

I got a new laptop about 6 months ago and have refused to install Chrome on it.

For the few cases where I need anything Google related, I use Edge. Basically, Edge gets all my Google related tabs, and Firefox with uBlock Origin gets the rest of my browsing.

I did have to train myself not to control-click links in Gmail though, and instead copy-link, paste-into-Firefox.

I found that Firefox doesn't want to support the same scaling features as Safari and Chrome. I could never get this to work anyhow.

    <meta id="viewport" name="viewport" content="width=device-width, shrink-to-fit=no">

That shit is for lazy devs. Nobody should be forced to use pinch zoom on a platform designed to reflow text.

Tell them. I had a similar problem a couple of years ago, I logged a complaint and they eventually fixed it. It took a few months, IIRC, but they replied and confirmed that it was fixed.

You can also file a bug report with Mozilla's Web Compat team:

https://webcompat.com/

They diagnose websites broken in Firefox and reach out to website developers, fix Firefox bugs, add Firefox UA overrides (see Firefox's about:compat page), and start discussions to resolve ambiguities in web standards. For example, what should happen for a broken image without an alt value?

https://webcompat.com/issues/44353#issuecomment-555793736

it's related to adblocker, i eventually disabled adblock for that website, but without disabling it it wont work. i know it's not directly a firefox issue, but with mobile chrome not having adblocking it kinda is in that they don't care. it honestly took me to long to figure it because i could not believe that a multi national bank would have this broken website (and that is with new 2018-19 redesign). it's not the first website to not work without js, but you would assume that the bank website would be done in a way where if analytics is not loaded the rest of the webpage would continue to work.

weird. I've used firefox for years. I can't recall broken stuff really, unless the developer tried to purposefully not let me use it based on user agent (work around available for most). But random crashes did plague me for a bit earlier on.

Did you contact them about it?

Binance.com had the same problem, I emailed them about it and it was fixed the next week.

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