diff --git a/homepage/js/quotes.js b/homepage/js/quotes.js
index 1e5b1b0..08758df 100644
--- a/homepage/js/quotes.js
+++ b/homepage/js/quotes.js
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
  *   QUOTE_VALUE_ID (see code) respectively
  * - use window.quote_new() to get a new quote. */
 
-import quotes from "./quotes.json" assert { type: "json" };
+/* firefox doesn't support import assertions yet (2022-02-20; fx 97.0) */
+import quotes from "./quotes.json";
 window.quotes = quotes;
 window.QUOTES_L_QUOTE_MARK = '"';
 window.QUOTES_R_QUOTE_MARK = '"';