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39 mentions on Hacker News by 31 people: 4 stories, 35 comments · first 2017-06-08 · latest 2026-01-16

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  1. In about:config set network.http.dictionaries.enable to false to fix it. source: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/201270
    comment by OptionX · 2026-01-16 · in The latest Firefox version broke ChatGPT website
  2. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2010712 https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/201270
    comment by vanni · 2026-01-16 · in The latest Firefox version broke ChatGPT website
  3. I was the one who filed the original webcompat issue :-) ... https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/168913 Although the form result made it sound like a macOS-only issue, I actually have observed (and continue to observe) it on both…
    comment by brycewray · 2025-09-29 · in Fast UDP I/O for Firefox in Rust
  4. …Linux 42. When I filed the original GH issue that webcompat-bot turned into this Bugzilla item ( https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/168913 ), my full report didn't make it into Bugzilla.
    comment by brycewray · 2025-08-22 · in The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare
  5. …And a (closed in favor of the bugzilla entry) webcompat issue: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/125193
    comment by Brybry · 2024-09-06 · in Deploying Rust in existing firmware codebases
  6. Reported it here: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/134506
    comment by raybb · 2024-03-11 · in My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing (2023)
  7. https://GitHub.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues
    comment by MatthiasPortzel · 2024-02-07 · in The Ladybird browser project
  8. Key part ( from https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/131916#issuecom... ) "This is entirely server-side UA sniffing going wrong. You get an empty HTML doc, only a doctype, with a Firefox Android UA. You can reproduce this with…
    comment by kramerger · 2024-01-09 · in www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed
  9. https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/131916#issuecom... This is entirely server-side UA sniffing going wrong. You get an empty HTML doc, only a doctype, with a Firefox Android UA. You can reproduce this with curl and it seems that…
    comment by mozvalentin · 2024-01-09 · in www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed
  10. https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%... Microsoft Teams (which I don't think many people use voluntarily) in particular breaks in stupid ways - and then in others if you spoof your user agent.
    comment by asmor · 2023-12-02 · in Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates
  11. …enable a feature that only half works. This GitHub WebCompat issue serves as a good example history https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/77892 Haven't used Zoom in browser much so can't say what one can find there. I just run the…
    comment by zamadatix · 2023-08-22 · in Switching from Chrome to Firefox
  12. https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/125920#issuecom...
    comment by derbOac · 2023-08-22 · in Firefox: WhatsApp Web cannot paste text?
  13. https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/125193
    comment by muizelaar · 2023-07-31 · in A Year in Review of 0-days Exploited In-the-Wild in 2022
  14. …of Teams are on that version, and there, Teams is currently showing a "browser unsupported" banner. https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/25070#issuecomm...
    comment by cpeterso · 2023-04-01 · in Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes
  15. You can check out https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/labels/sitepatch-appli... to see current actions.
    comment by sanxiyn · 2022-10-14 · in WebKit Quirks.cpp
  16. …not being handled the way I want in Firefox. Browser compatibility bugs absolutely exist. See https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues for some more examples.
    comment by MatthiasPortzel · 2022-06-22 · in What will a Chromium-only Web look like?
  17. …broken and triage issues that affect specific browsers and not others. They've handled 103k issues: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is... A great number of the issues that Mozilla contractors and employees…
    comment by lol768 · 2022-05-28 · in Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
  18. …" investigation efforts are rather motivated by site compat issues that affect users. An issue like https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/25070 is certainly very important to Firefox users, but it's not clear if it could be fixed by…
    comment by foolip · 2022-03-04 · in Interop 2022
  19. …They sorted an array of page widths using a wrong comparison function which always returned -1 ( https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/89812#issuecomm... ), but the code happened to produce the right answer by pure coincidence on…
    comment by nyanpasu64 · 2022-03-04 · in Interop 2022
  20. …how everyone who is in a good position to fix it seems OK with just ignoring this situation. [0] https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/25070 [1] https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is... [2]…
    comment by csnover · 2022-03-03 · in Interop 2022
  21. No, that’s behaving as intended, and as the issue text describes. Look at the edit history of https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/99713 to see the most recent example of a webcompat-bot issue that started in that shape, and was…
    comment by chrismorgan · 2022-02-18 · in WebCompat – Bug Reporting for the Web
  22. The bot on github seems to be faulty and churning out empty issues. https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/99778
    comment by SwampertX · 2022-02-18 · in WebCompat – Bug Reporting for the Web
  23. …workaround intended for Firefox versions < 52 that breaks on more recent Firefox versions. https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/67866
    comment by cpeterso · 2022-02-15 · in Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox
  24. Looks like they’re using feature detection and Firefox is missing that feature https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/76550#issuecomm...
    comment by styfle · 2021-06-16 · in FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web
  25. Cloud SSH has been broken for months https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/57957 - no movement despite reporting it via the official channels too. This is one of the first features a new GCE user is likely to use (if they're…
    comment by lol768 · 2020-12-09 · in Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
  26. My pet peeve is that a lot of the GCP console doesn't even seem to work in Firefox. For example: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/61522
    comment by dochtman · 2020-12-09 · in Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
  27. …the issue (and blamed me) and GDS put their hands up and said it was nothing to do with them. https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/56216 I have no faith this'll get fixed on many sites before it breaks a much wider proportion of…
    comment by lol768 · 2020-08-05 · in Changes to SameSite Cookie Behavior – A Call to Action for Web Developers
  28. …v8's implementation. Guess it was someone else's, hah. 1: https://blog.moddable.com/blog/regexp/ 2: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/51385 3: https://github.com/ldarren/QuickJS/blob/mod/libregexp.c#L259
    comment by ridiculous_fish · 2020-06-12 · in A New RegExp Engine in SpiderMonkey
  29. Here are the Firefox bug reports for Slack calls: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/12975 And Teams calls: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/25070 Slack originally relied on non-standard, Chrome-specific WebRTC…
    comment by cpeterso · 2020-03-31 · in How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you clicking ‘install’
  30. There's still breakage in small areas: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1601831 https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/25270 IIRC though the main issue with YouTube was a slow polyfill library which has been fixed since…
    comment by Mathnerd314 · 2019-12-18 · in Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium
  31. …these? It's helpful to report them to the webcompat web-bugs repository as you discover them - e.g. https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/36955 - https://webcompat.com/ has more information on the project.
    comment by lol768 · 2019-11-10 · in Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet
  32. …am not an Mozilla employee. Just someone who loves the web.) have a very robust Web Compat program https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/27435 and Web Compat is very interested in helping product teams. I think what the Edge team…
    comment by mcny · 2019-03-08 · in New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers
  33. …a strange rendering glitch in current Nightly occurring while scrolling the page with menu opened: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/17016 If you plan to make some radical alterations that could potentially "fix" that bug in…
    comment by myfonj · 2018-05-25 · in Cool Backgrounds
  34. …then Firefox is unfocused and refocused, the field is no longer selected. Works in Chromium. See: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/16938
    comment by alexozer · 2018-05-18 · in Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN
  35. It gets worse. Per comments on https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/172 if you just spoof the Chrome or Safari UA string the site works fine...
    comment by bzbarsky · 2017-06-08 · in A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire ca. 125 AD