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Firefox is on the brink of being dropped by the US Government (www.brycewray.com)

submitted 11 months ago by morrowind@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[-] scytale@lemm.ee 41 points 11 months ago

I tried doing my annual vehicle registration online on FF yesterday and the dmv site kept throwing an error and bringing me back to step 1 when I submit my payment information. Tried turning off all my extensions and still wouldn’t budge. Finally tried it in Chrome and it worked instantly. You’d think government websites of all places would have compatibility with most popular browsers.

[-] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

Government websites don't care at all about support, most of them were made 15-20 years ago and haven't been updated at all

[-] Knusper@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago

Well, those will work in Firefox just fine...

[-] kuneho@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You’d think government websites of all places would have compatibility with most popular browsers.

lol, I would never ever think that. government sites are just the worst fucking feverish web nightmare that exists, at least here where I live.

it's like they deliberately choose people for this kind of work whom never seen computers in their life before and think Internet is just an energy drink you buy at the gas station.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 8 points 11 months ago

dude i work with one that just recently added support for non-internet explorer... major. government. entity. places that are the reason for the required legacy i.e. code in edge.

this government shit is based on 'lowest bidder' mentality.

[-] rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

I have had some luck using a user agent switcher in these cases. Might be worth a shot.

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