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Although I don't support what they're doing I can guess the response here based on past responses:

They are using new technology that's currently only available in Chrome but available to other browsers to implement and therefore they are pushing the web forward.

I'm not sure if that applies to this specific case but that's usually the excuse.

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Yeah, that's also how ActiveX were sold...

Cannot agree more. At least they need to justify this statement. If there is a legitimate critical missing feature in FF, I am sure the FF devs will get on it pronto. But this lack of communication is worrisome.

Yeah, the communications piece is awesome. We (Mozilla) have run into Google properties that send Firefox on Android degraded content because "it's missing some features our mobile site relies on, so it's not Tier 1". When we ask them what these features are, the response is "we can't tell you what things need to be supported to be Tier 1".

and flash

Yeah, but also AJAX.

I'm not sure my comment applies to the parent comment or to the post linked but nevertheless I drop my opinion here. Thanks.

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