Do any of you use the Notifications panel on the WordPress web site?

I load the site on a traditional Windows PC, I run up my browser (Firefox) and load the site from there. Until yesterday, I could use the Notifications panel to see new posts and comments.

It looks like, in the last 24 hours, WordPress have made a change such that, on Firefox, this panel no longer loads. If you look at it through a debugger, as I did, the panel runs off to the server to load the list of notifications. Except now, it doesn’t. So you end up looking at a perpetual spinner.

I have a copy of the Chrome browser installed – I don’t use it day-to-day, but keep it for testing things like this. So, I checked the site in Chrome – the panel not only works, but has been enhanced, so it looks like whatever change they made to enhance the Chrome experience has plain broken it in Firefox.

I hardly ever use Chrome – I don’t like Google anyway, and their vision/speech-related extensions, which come bundled as part of Firefox, are very expensive. I’m not going to change my browser. Which unfortunately means I won’t know when any of you have posted, answered my comments on your posts, or even been kind enough to leave comments on my posts. Until WordPress do something about this.

Oh, and in case you’re wondering, WordPress deny all knowledge of this, they say it must be Firefox’s fault. Despite the fact that I can *see* WordPress’s obvious changes when I load their site in Chrome. Can anyone smell anything?

Kinda makes you wonder why you subscribe, doesn’t it? Certainly does me.