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Comment by chrisseaton | Hacker News Reader

> You are Mozilla, send them a mail and give them a week to fix it, because you are f'ing Mozilla.

Mozilla has a user-base of like 3%.

They don't have any clout at all. They should be grovelling to and thanking any website that bothers to support them, not trying to give ultimatums.

> don't hotpatch it but send it to the vendor and tell them to merge it or else...

But this is a user-hostile approach. No thanks.

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User-base has no importance, dev-base is what matters here. If Mozilla sends a letter to developers, chances are those people already stumbled upon MDN multiple times when they looked for answers to web development related questions.

Why would developers care about a browser that their users don't use?

Can you imagine if retail stores where made in a way that 3% of customers couldn't use them?

If there's no law saying they have to support those 3% of customers, and supporting the 3% costs more than the 3% bring in, then yeah they won't bother.

Because if "Firefox/100.0" reveals a bug, the bug may also trigger when other browsers introduce a similar change.

All the web developers I know use and test on Chrome. If they test on Firefox, it's as an afterthought.

Hello! Know you know one who builds and tests on FF.

I use FF as a daily driver.

I also use it for developing and use its developer tools. If it works on Firefox, there's maybe a few CSS tweaks I need to make when I test on other browsers

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