I was just in touch with Stripe support, and they confirmed that Firefox is no longer a supported browser. That means that issues that can only be reproduced on Firefox will no longer be fixed.<p>Obviously, Firefox's market share isn't what it used to be. However, Stripe has always cultivated an image of being developer-friendly, and Firefox remains popular with developers. Is not supporting Firefox a reasonable position for Stripe (and other sites popular with developers) to take?<p>Discuss.
The natural consequence of chromewashing. If people pretend that Chrome clones are a "competitors" or viable "alternatives" it's no wonder that the only real alternative (on Windows) loses marketshare and is slowly deprecated because not many people speak out. It would be a "fun" time if FF ever dies, new IE6.0 situation but worse.
I haven't done any serious, or hyped front end development in years. But I wonder why drop Firefox <i>now</i>? Compatibility is at all time high. Confined within a core and subset of HTML and CSS everything is so so much better than IE6 era.
I don't think anyone can judge unless they have actual usage % of Firefox for the stripe properties. If only 0.1% use Firefox then it's a no brainer right? might as well support gopher. unfortunately firefox dropped the ball so hard this past decade. all those distractions came back with a vengeance.
I mean this is nothing new these days. MANY sites no longer work with Firefox. Two I just came across this weekend are the local newspaper and the public library's login - but these are two out of dozens in the last year.
Firefox isn't the champion of web anymore. Nobody should be supporting this browser until it is split from Mozilla. So good on Stripe for cutting it off.<p>Hopefully Ladybird will be different.
Not a big deal IMO.<p>It is easy to have more than one browser installed and the cost to switch browsers is very low, this isn't like iOS vs Android or Mac vs Windows where not supporting one platform will prevent people from using it.