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Because it's bad behaviour to rely on browser user agents instead of feature detection. It's what led to IE-only sites and is currently leading to Chrome-only sites.


Are there Chrome-only sites? I'm sure they exist on LANs, but are there public sites that only work with Chrome?


> Are there Chrome-only sites?

Yes, very much so. Especially on mobile, where UA-sniffing is rife.

Here's a very much non-exhaustive sample:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1047854

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=975444

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1322001

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=958575

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1020740

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1232656

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1377499

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1393109

(funny what percentage of those are google.com sites....)


https://meet.google.com/

Although, it's not very good in Chrome either :)




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