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		selfhoster11 on Feb 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how ... "Soft" crashes where websites simply don't load or function properly in FF, but do in Chrome, are far more common.

alpaca128 on Feb 14, 2022 [–]

I'd say that's usually a problem with websites and not the browser.

Many websites are just designed with the 80% of most frequent configurations. And when autoplay is disabled, the browser window is too narrow, a special font isn't loaded or a cookie is blocked all bets are off.

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