• crimroy@sopuli.xyz
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    11 months ago

    Who cares? I use Firefox but why do I care if the US government does? I thought they were still using Netscape on Windows ME

    • great_site_not@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Did you read the article? This is about how the government’s web developers could stop writing websites that support Firefox. You might have to switch to Chromium to use government websites.

      • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Web dev here. Unless they explicitly block other browsers or somehow adopt bleeding-edge tech that other browsers have and Firefox doesn’t (has Firefox ever not been the first to support new standards?) I don’t know how this would even be a problem.

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          11 months ago

          has Firefox ever not been the first to support new standards?

          doesn’t really matter when it’s a google standard…

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      11 months ago

      When I worked for the USDA in 2010 we had several web applications that depended on Internet Explorer 6.