List of sites that actively block or are not compatible with Firefox
October 15th, 2007
The year is 2007 yet some websites act like we are living in the dark ages of the late 90s. Back in those dark ages, it was common practice to pretend that the only browser in existence was Internet Explorer but here in 2007, developers really no longer have that option and still some websites only work well with Internet Explorer.
ToastyTech has a whole list of sites that either actively block Firefox, are not fully compatible with Firefox or cannot be accessed through Firefox and it is a rather extensive list.
However, a good number of those links work just fine in Netscape 9.0rc1. That is interesting because Netscape 9.0 is based off the Firefox engine so you would think those same sites would not work in Netscape either but many of them do, some don’t but that is to be expected.
There is no doubt that those sites do not work in Firefox but it is just interesting that at least some of them work in a browser that is based off the same engine.
On a side note, since Netscape 9.0 is based off Firefox and since most Firefox extensions work in Netscape and since Netscape appears to be compatible with a good number more sites than Firefox is, Netscape is (and has been for the past few months) my browser of choice.
Via Tech.blorge.com
1 Comment
1. Manta | October 15th, 2007 at 23:15
As a web developer and software engineer I am baffled as to why humans need to rebel and create dozens of different standards, instead of building upon and working with each other. This petty war between browsers has caused a great deal of headache to myself and other webdevelopers.
I have been writing sites with dual compatability, but still there are many features that just can’t be used with firefox. Why anyone would want to flame IE while using a browser that ignors lots of kewl effects is a mystery.
The common excuse is IE is an inferior browser. I feel it is the opposite, and if just for the record, Google does much more tracking than Microsoft when it comes to internet surfing habits and at least Most of the microsoft tracking can be turned off, while Google doesn’t even acknowledge they do it.
Just My Humble Opion….
=MANTA=
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