What major standard features is Firefox missing these days? Their terrible take on PWAs is disappointing, but the only things Firefox seems to be missing are things some other browser vendor just decided to build one day (Chrome’s filesystem API, Apple’s WebGPU, etc.).
Even with Mozilla doing everything in their power to make Firefox worse in attempt to squeeze money out of the browser so they don’t have to dock the CEO’s bonuses, they’re still the least bad functional browser.
Yeah, I’m also a web developer and this person is completely up their own ass. We’ve all struggled with browsers that lag behind standards (internet explorer) or implement them in weird ways (safari). But Mozilla has never even come close to being a problem like the others.
Also I doubt they are using the newest of new web standards that would actually need to be poly filled and even then with modern JS build tooling poly filling isn’t difficult or abnormal. Oh, the bundle for your crappy SPA might be a few kb bigger but that isn’t gonna make a difference.
Anyway, Firefox does have two functional side panels, though. It also has various ways to manage tabs through official and unofficial addons, which I much prefer myself. The ability to use different profiles in the same window by assigning each tab to a container is something I can’t live without anymore.
Perhaps you didn’t see the (deleted) comment I was responding to, but they were speaking from the position of a web developer, not from the perspective of a normal user:
I’m a software engineer, and when I build web apps, Firefox now stands in the way of me being able to use new standard features (without polyfills). Meaning, if I want to support the 2-5% of users that may use Firefox, I have to explicitly go out of my way to either make my site less efficient for everyone, or build a special version just for Frefox because it’s so behind, like we used to with IE, making Firefox the new IE (except nobody is really using it). And of course, you can only polyfill so much. Some things are utterly impossible, such as the various PWA features that Mozilla refuses to support, or many new CSS features coming out.
What major standard features is Firefox missing these days? Their terrible take on PWAs is disappointing, but the only things Firefox seems to be missing are things some other browser vendor just decided to build one day (Chrome’s filesystem API, Apple’s WebGPU, etc.).
Even with Mozilla doing everything in their power to make Firefox worse in attempt to squeeze money out of the browser so they don’t have to dock the CEO’s bonuses, they’re still the least bad functional browser.
Yeah, I’m also a web developer and this person is completely up their own ass. We’ve all struggled with browsers that lag behind standards (internet explorer) or implement them in weird ways (safari). But Mozilla has never even come close to being a problem like the others.
Also I doubt they are using the newest of new web standards that would actually need to be poly filled and even then with modern JS build tooling poly filling isn’t difficult or abnormal. Oh, the bundle for your crappy SPA might be a few kb bigger but that isn’t gonna make a difference.
To name a big one: the CSS :has() pseudo-class.
How is this still not enabled by default?
There are still a bug or two that need to be solved before it’s enabled by default. I’m sure contributions would be welcome!
Side panel, workspaces, tab-stacking, just to name a few.
Those aren’t web APIs for a web designer to use.
Anyway, Firefox does have two functional side panels, though. It also has various ways to manage tabs through official and unofficial addons, which I much prefer myself. The ability to use different profiles in the same window by assigning each tab to a container is something I can’t live without anymore.
“What major standard features is Firefox missing these days?”
This was your question, nowhere did you say anything about web API’s. You stupid or just forget which comment I was responding to?
Sure FF has extensions that “kinda do the same thing” except they’re shit and bloat the browser beyond what it already is compared to Vivaldi.
Perhaps you didn’t see the (deleted) comment I was responding to, but they were speaking from the position of a web developer, not from the perspective of a normal user: