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I’m definitely seeing several sites lately that require me to use a particular browser, lest I see blank elements or “buttons” that infuriatingly do nothing when I click them except in certain browsers.

It’s not consistent though. Usually switching to Safari is what works but sometimes I must use Firefox. On one government site it seemed the only working combo was to use an iPad, as no desktop browser worked on my Mac.

My latest gripe has to be log-in screens though (Google is guilty): forms are as old as the web and I resent that I can’t even log in anymore because your Unnecessarily Fancy Form just doesn’t work on all browsers!?



Try changing macOS' safari's useragent to safari on ipad next time.

Its also handy to get efficient video from sites stil serving flash to desktops.


> On one government site it seemed the only working combo was to use an iPad, as no desktop browser worked on my Mac.

Did you try using IE? I find some state government sites still work best on IE10/IE11


They had a Mac, so probably not.




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