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I am genuinely interested in who I managed to piss off
I am genuinely interested in who I managed to piss off

Every so often you run into something on Reddit that instantly gets downvoted and has any comments downvoted as well. This really doesn't bother me (I have around 20,000 karma already) but sometimes I get curious about what, exactly, someone gets worked up enough about to spend time every day downvoting anyone who tries to discuss it. In r/browsers it looks like anything that talks about using anything other than FireFox gets shouted down by one person and and anything that talks about using anything other than Chrome gets shouted down by another person. As an example, what is objectionable about the following post?

https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1kuqc13/configuring_librewolf_to_act_more_like_firefox/


Looking for a Browser that actually cares about their users
Looking for a Browser that actually cares about their users
Discussion

I'm looking for a browser that actually treats their users like they matter. The browsers I've used have serious problems that I've heard many people complain about for years but they refuse to do anything about it despite the solutions being very simple.

  1. Firefox won't do it's job as a browser for websites that have the error "SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG": Solution is simply, do your job as a browser and open the site.

  2. Opera seems obsessed with zooming every tab from the same website, so if it's a picture website and different pictures require different levels of zoom then Opera won't comply with that: Solution is simple, make a setting that determines zoom based on either domain or tab.

  3. I used to use Chrome but stopped because of some problem, I think it was the same as Opera: Solution is same as Opera

Why do these Browsers hate their customers so much that they laugh at their complaints? Is it some kind of scam? Monopolies are illegal but it seems like they are trying to get around it by forcing users to have to use all the browsers. For example Opera to access websites, Firefox to open picture websites, and others for different things.