RFGuy wrote
IF MS Edge works fine and Firefox doesn't, why not just use it then? By the way, MS dropped their Edge browser and are using Chrome now, i.e. it is a Chrome browser with a MS Edge skin on it. Not uncommon to have some browser incompatibility issues. I tried using Firefox in the past, but often ran into issues with it not working correctly at companies that I worked at where internal websites and systems would not display correctly in it. I gave up and have used Chrome almost exclusively since then. In my limited experience, it has the least website compatibility issues compared to other browsers.
I concur! Browsers have been in a huge state of flux since…. well, at least since Lynx, a text-based browser that came out in 1992 and was the first browser I used before Mosaic came out. I used to use Firefox because it was the most compatible, fastest, and safest, but that was many years ago. I switched to Google Chrome because it attained those qualities. Then a year or two ago, Google decided to stop supporting some protocols that many sites used, because of security concerns, which I also highly value, so I have kind of become browser agnostic. I usually load three different browsers on my clients PCs and tell them that if They have problems on any site try another browser, and if that one gives them problems too, try the third browser. With the lack of full integration testing, like they used to do in the mainframe glass computer room days, it is really amazing that anything works. And that is what is going on today. Everyone is moving fast to bring highly technical features into their browser-based applications, both within the browsers and on corporate websites, and updates are coming out all the time. Then you have every computer owner installing all forms of programs, and browser extensions, that there is no possible way that anyone could do full integration testing. What this adds up to is lots of little pieces of computer code, on both the user’s computer and on the website, that all have to work together, and often they don’t play nice.
It really is wonderful that you were able to actually communicate with someone at the company, and if it’s that wide-spread of a problem, they will probably come out with a fix within the next couple of updates. But you can still use the program with Edge, so that’s good. This is the reason I always “prefer” to wait for others to do the beta testing before I install a major upgrade, unless I really have to install it so I can support my clients who like to live on the bleeding edge. The problem with bleeding edge is that you have to be willing to bleed.
