<story><title>Firefox desktop market share now below 9%</title><url>https://netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22%24and%22%3A%5B%7B%22deviceType%22%3A%7B%22%24in%22%3A%5B%22Desktop%2Flaptop%22%5D%7D%7D%5D%7D%2C%22dateLabel%22%3A%22Trend%22%2C%22attributes%22%3A%22share%22%2C%22group%22%3A%22browser%22%2C%22sort%22%3A%7B%22share%22%3A-1%7D%2C%22id%22%3A%22browsersDesktop%22%2C%22dateInterval%22%3A%22Monthly%22%2C%22dateStart%22%3A%222017-12%22%2C%22dateEnd%22%3A%222018-11%22%2C%22segments%22%3A%22-1000%22%7D</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cjcampbell</author><text>This can be helpful in development scenarios. I’m supporting a team that uses localstack to support local development against some AWS services. Unfortunately, the CORS settings for localstack break the development environment. With Chrome allowing them to disable from the command-line, I can provide a shortcut to launch with degraded security, no plugins, no user settings, etc. My only wish is that Chrome would make it more obvious that it’s running with these protections disabled.</text></item><item><author>sombremesa</author><text>I love using Firefox as my daily driver, and I can always pop open chrome if I really have to. What kind of life do you lead where your browser needs to have CORS constantly disabled?</text></item><item><author>dak1</author><text>I would love to use Firefox more for dev, but until it has a first class way to disable CORS, I can&amp;#x27;t. &amp;quot;CORS Everywhere&amp;quot; is not sufficient (it alters responses, but does not actually disable CORS, which doesn&amp;#x27;t cover all needs).&lt;p&gt;Chrome I can at least disable CORS via the command line, and Safari does it best by putting it in a Developer menu that I can easily toggle.&lt;p&gt;Firefox&amp;#x27;s dev tools also seem to still be behind — I haven&amp;#x27;t seen a good way to inspect WebSocket frames, for instance.&lt;p&gt;I would really prefer to use Firefox due to Mozzila&amp;#x27;s stances on privacy, especially in contrast to Google; however, I have to use the tool that lets me actually get work done.</text></item><item><author>bjz_</author><text>Been really enjoying Firefox, especially after Quantum. More devs should support and use it, lest we be beholden to Chrome for the rest of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vorticalbox</author><text>You should be setting your server to set cors to allow all not disabling it in your browser.&lt;p&gt;This is what we do while running docker for local development with node.</text></comment>
<story><title>Firefox desktop market share now below 9%</title><url>https://netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22%24and%22%3A%5B%7B%22deviceType%22%3A%7B%22%24in%22%3A%5B%22Desktop%2Flaptop%22%5D%7D%7D%5D%7D%2C%22dateLabel%22%3A%22Trend%22%2C%22attributes%22%3A%22share%22%2C%22group%22%3A%22browser%22%2C%22sort%22%3A%7B%22share%22%3A-1%7D%2C%22id%22%3A%22browsersDesktop%22%2C%22dateInterval%22%3A%22Monthly%22%2C%22dateStart%22%3A%222017-12%22%2C%22dateEnd%22%3A%222018-11%22%2C%22segments%22%3A%22-1000%22%7D</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cjcampbell</author><text>This can be helpful in development scenarios. I’m supporting a team that uses localstack to support local development against some AWS services. Unfortunately, the CORS settings for localstack break the development environment. With Chrome allowing them to disable from the command-line, I can provide a shortcut to launch with degraded security, no plugins, no user settings, etc. My only wish is that Chrome would make it more obvious that it’s running with these protections disabled.</text></item><item><author>sombremesa</author><text>I love using Firefox as my daily driver, and I can always pop open chrome if I really have to. What kind of life do you lead where your browser needs to have CORS constantly disabled?</text></item><item><author>dak1</author><text>I would love to use Firefox more for dev, but until it has a first class way to disable CORS, I can&amp;#x27;t. &amp;quot;CORS Everywhere&amp;quot; is not sufficient (it alters responses, but does not actually disable CORS, which doesn&amp;#x27;t cover all needs).&lt;p&gt;Chrome I can at least disable CORS via the command line, and Safari does it best by putting it in a Developer menu that I can easily toggle.&lt;p&gt;Firefox&amp;#x27;s dev tools also seem to still be behind — I haven&amp;#x27;t seen a good way to inspect WebSocket frames, for instance.&lt;p&gt;I would really prefer to use Firefox due to Mozzila&amp;#x27;s stances on privacy, especially in contrast to Google; however, I have to use the tool that lets me actually get work done.</text></item><item><author>bjz_</author><text>Been really enjoying Firefox, especially after Quantum. More devs should support and use it, lest we be beholden to Chrome for the rest of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>Why not just configure your server or a proxy to add the necessary headers that unlock CORS restrictions.</text></comment>