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otsukare
Personal blog · otsukare.infowebprogramming
otsukare is a personal blog at otsukare.info about web and programming. Since 2014, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Capping macOS User Agent String on macOS 11”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Capping macOS User Agent String on macOS 114 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-02-15
- List of Google Web Compatibility Bugs on Firefox3 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2014-10-28
- Browser Wish List – Tabs and bookmarks are the same thing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-14
- Encyclopedia of broken UserAgent string detections2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-17
- Browser Developer Tools Timeline2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-06
What Hacker News says?
http://www.otsukare.info/2014/10/28/google-webcompatibility-... has a more complete rundown of the still-extant issues in case you're interested. The whole post is well worth reading, because it does say something important that needs to be said: there are many individuals at Google who believe in things like interoperability, web sites working in all browsers, etc, and strive for that (sometimes against internal op…
Comment linking /2014/10/28/google-webcompatibility-bugs-list
on “Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance”Submitted Vendor Prefixes and Market Reality as a story · 24 points
HN discussionThere are a few google related ones in Karl Dubost's list: http://www.otsukare.info/2014/10/28/google-webcompatibility-...
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on “Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance”Submitted Encyclopedia of broken UserAgent string detections as a story · 13 points
HN discussion>Firebug brought the concept to existence in the first place. There were other browser "dev tools" before firebug. https://www.otsukare.info/2020/08/06/browser-devtools-timeli...
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on “Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file”Submitted List of Google Web Compatibility Bugs on Firefox as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHere is a list of bugs with Google services and Firefox. http://www.otsukare.info/2014/10/28/google-webcompatibility-...
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on “YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 for 2 weeks”Submitted How to Make «Cidre» of Normandy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe latest Firefox has issues with Google sites http://www.otsukare.info/2014/10/28/google-webcompatibility-...
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on “Bootstrap 3.3.0 and Bootstrap 4”Submitted Browser Wish List – Tabs and bookmarks are the same thing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt is not just Inbox http://www.otsukare.info/2014/10/28/google-webcompatibility-...
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on “Why Is Google Blocking Inbox on Firefox?”Submitted Browser Developer Tools Timeline as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is a problem with Google only making things work with Chrome. http://www.otsukare.info/2014/10/28/google-webcompatibility-...
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on “Firefox Quantum”Submitted Capping macOS User Agent String on macOS 11 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFollow up meeting discussion: https://www.otsukare.info/2021/03/02/capping-user-agent-stri...
Comment linking /2021/03/02/capping-user-agent-string
on “Capping macOS User Agent String on macOS 11”Submitted Encyclopedia of Broken UserAgent String Detections as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMozilla froze the macOS version in User-Agent strings past Catalina too, also due to web compatibility issues (particularly with older versions of the Unity game engine). Other engines do the same as well: https://www.otsukare.info/2021/02/15/capping-macos-user-agen...
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on “When the IE 11 User-Agent forced Mozilla to freeze part of its User-Agent string”Submitted Capping macOS User Agent String on macOS 11 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Get Ready for Three Digit User Agent Strings as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted More roads and faster browsers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quirks, Site Interventions and Fixing Websites as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Browser Wish List – Tabs and bookmarks are the same thing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Capping macOS User Agent String on macOS 11 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Site Interventions and Automated Testing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted User Experience on Fail or Block as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vendor Prefixes and Market Reality as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted List of Google Web Compatibility Bugs on Firefox as a story · 1 points
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