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Admin(+1)

Thanks for the investigation. I’ve just deployed a change that causes all Firefox versions to fall back to launching HTML games in a popup instead of directly in the game’s page, which has universal support for the necessary headers.

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Hi Leafo.

I think the change indirectly may have broke some very specific scenario I am currently experiencing. I will try to describe it.

I am a Firefox user and I am developing a game. (Godot 4, browser build)
Because the game is in its testing stages I have the game currently on Restricted with a required password to be able to access the page. Testers can access the page at any time while the game not being officially released yet.

Due to the pop-up change, users reported that the pop-up gave a 404 page when loading the browser game. When I tested it myself (while being logged into Itch.io) The game was working.
Then I tried running the game on a Firefox private tab (not being logged into itch.io) and I also got the 404 page.
I tried playing the game in Edge (without being logged into Itch.io) and I was able to play the browser game normally.

I am suspecting that the pop-up does not know about the password that is required in order to view the Itch.io page of the Restricted game. And that it gives a 404 page instead.
So testers that use Firefox are unable to play the browser build currently.

Thanks for your time!

Apparently the new change has also made the download button work again (there was an issue where, if a game had both play-in-browser and downloadable builds but the former used SharedArrayBufffer it caused Firefox to not be able to download the downloadable builds).

Ah, thank you for that. Now psy-ball works great on Firefox!