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I use firefox exclusively, on both my laptop and my phone. It works perfectly on any website I throw at it. I work for a startup which makes video call apps, the web client works perfectly under Firefox, and there's a grand total of 2 devs working on it.
All this to say that if I come across your website and it doesn't work under Firefox, AFAIC it's your website that has issues, not Firefox.
As for the reason, you might be fine with a single megacorp dictating the way the web works, but for many of us who remember what it was like in the IE hegemony days it's a serious concern.
Again, I'm not a soldier for any software. I don't care. It's a pragmatic business decision.
I guess my point is, you should :)
I would, if there wasn't for my personal experience of using Firefox, when I had to switch to other browsers for some websites I used.
Its because of that, that when we decided to ignore Firefox, I wasn't against it.
It's a question of
How much effort (man hours which ultimately translates to $$$) versus how much revenue lost (people not buying because of Firefox bugs)
In my experience this depends on your specific application. Sometimes there are weird bugs or behavior where you have to really hunt down what's going on. Other times it's as simple as changing a few css lines or something.
It's almost impossible to calculate revenue lost, but as much as we tried, it was 0 or almost 0.
Again, we don't even check anymore.