Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com

There were no “issues”; everything was working completely fine. This is a deliberate decision to force people to turn off tracking protection.

I saw a recommendation to use Firefox’s container extension https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers, but it’s disabled in private browsing windows, and I always use private browsing windows.

    • Barbarian
      48•1 month ago

      Every software project, without exception, has a testing environment.

      Some even have a separate production environment too.

      • unalivejoyEnglish
        3•1 month ago1 month ago

        And some projects only test in Chrome. If we’re lucky, they test in Firefox with default settings.

          • Aceticon
            2•1 month ago

            Welcome to the Internet, were you can never be sure if Satire is Satire or somebody’s genuine opinion until they confirm it’s the former using a meme.

            • brbposting
              4•1 month ago

              You’re right about that in many cases.

              That post? It two sentences.

              Second sentence is a joke that couldn’t be taken seriously. As if it were a knock knock joke or something. …right?!

              • Aceticon
                2•1 month ago

                Somebody who is not a software developer or is a junior one who only ever worked in one or two major projects and got lucky (really depends on the country and the industry) might believe it.

                It’s hardly unusual for people who only ever worked in one place to think everything is like that, and some of those do get lucky (not all software development environments out there are like the US Tech Industry) and end up right after Uni in a place with some good senior techies that make sure environments are properly set up.

                Also in-house development in industries were software is mission critical and new versions breaking Production might result in massive losses or death (for example, Finance) always have proper Testing and Staging environments - you don’t really want to lose millions of dollars (possibly hundreds of millions if unlucky) by having all the traders in a Trading Floor twidling their thumbs because somebody didn’t do, before pushing to Production, proper integration testing in Staging of some comms protocol changes done for two different systems.

                • Barbarian
                  4•1 month ago

                  I agree with everything you say here, but I thought the setup-payoff joke structure and the fact I intentionally swapped testing and production for comedic effect made it obvious enough. I guess Poe’s law strikes again.