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I use Firefox on both Android and desktop. It's much better in many ways, and I love it. I do get compatibility issues sometimes, but I'm unsure whether it's because of all of the add-ons I use, or websites being buggy with Firefox.

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I suspect it's your add-ons. I've been using Firefox mobile for years and I don't think I've ever had a site that worked better in Chrome.

Caveats: Sometimes launching apps from the browser only works in Chrome and some demos of bleeding edge experimental Chrome features obviously don't work in Firefox.

There are definitely sites that don't work in Firefox, although they are pretty far and few between.

Mailgun is one of the worst offenders. when I mentioned to their support that auth among other things was broken in Firefox, their response was "use chrome"

I heard "avoid mailgun"

Yes that is good advice. I wouldn't use Mailgun again if I was starting from scratch today. The email sending infra is pretty solid, but their web UI is really fragile and routinely has outages. And of course, does not work in Firefox.

Here's an example that just got me: the Tesco mobile prepaid login has a hidden recapcha field that isn't filled in on Firefox mobile. It's rare, but happens enough I increasingly try and use chrome for multi step things that will be annoying or problems if they fail near the end, like government forms.

or because people develope for chrome and skip testing on other browsers.

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