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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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[-] crimroy@sopuli.xyz 40 points 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 23 points 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 5 points 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.

[-] yukijoou@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

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

doesn't really matter when it's a google standard...

[-] SeabassDan@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

How convenient for them and the Corp lining their pockets.

[-] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Asclepiaz@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I worked at a software company in 2010 and was still actively coding web applications that work in ie6. They wanted web 2.0 flashy things... And also must work in ie6. It was not fun

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I worked in an office in 2009 with a Windows 95 PC (a Packard Bell that barely ran the OS).

I got them to upgrade it in 2012.

[-] ratzki@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

To Win98 or ME?

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I suppose I should have said replace it. :p

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Knock on affects could hurt firefox quite a bit

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