More and more websites are not working with Firefox
I am encountering more and more websites with problems they attribute to Firefox. Many of them recommend using Chrome or Edge and some insist upon it or they will no longer support problems. Direct TV will no longer work with Firefox at all and they will not fix it. Several of my other regular websites will work partially, but have pages that simply will not work with Firefox. I have resisted using Chrome or Edge for years but it is getting harder and harder to do as on line systems continue to have problems with Firefox and their only suggestion is to use Chrome (which works when Firefox doesn't). Any ideas/suggestions?
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Hi,
I'm really sorry to hear that. Please note that:
- Often, an issue is caused by the website handling old cookies/data incorrectly. In such cases, switching to a different browser (that you don't use daily) seems to resolve the issue, while what actually helps is starting from scratch, without the faulty saved data.
- Sometimes, websites just don't want to support Firefox... because of additional expenses or whatever. Mozilla makes great efforts to resolve such kind of issues by investigating them, contacting the website developers and, in some cases, deploying fixes themselves.
Here are standard troubleshooting steps for website issues, ordered from the simplest to more complex steps. While it may take some time to go through all of them, this should catch most of the issues and (see the last step) escalate to Mozilla if the issue appears to be global.
- Please check if you have Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) enabled. You can do that by clicking the shield
icon in the left part of the address bar.
- If ETP is enabled, try disabling it.
- If the problem is not fixed, try clearing Firefox cache.
- If it does not help, try clearing cookies and data for the website you experience troubles with (warning: you will be logged out on this website).
- If it also does not help, try running Firefox in Troubleshoot Mode. If the problem doesn't persist, please follow the steps from this article to troubleshoot further.
- If nothing from the above helps, try creating a new Firefox profile and check if the issue persists there. If it doesn't, you can start copying files from your old profile to the new one to identify which one causes the issue. See this article on what files to copy.
- Finally, if creating a new profile hasn't helped, please check if the issue persists in other browsers (e.g. Chrome, Edge, Opera or Safari).
- If it does, it is most likely an issue on the website's side. You may want to inform the website owner or administrator about that.
- If it doesn't, that's a compatibility issue. Please report it on WebCompat, so that our team there may be able to look into it. We'd also appreciate posting a link to your report here.
I hope the above helps you. Anyway, please feel free to post here if you have any further questions or if you want to chat about a particular issue.