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[–] [email protected] 140 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thank you for the excerpt. I initially interpreted the title as US government agencies will stop using Firefox, not US government agencies will stop requiring their web masters to test in Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’d imagine that effectively means agencies would stop using Firefox, if they can’t use it on their own sites.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Websites built for Chrome do work in Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Maybe like 98% of the time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fat chance they’re actually using Firefox in the first place. My money’s on Chrome or IE.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Government IT worker here: IE was dropped off almost all DoD computers years ago when MS officially ceased support of it. Edge, Firefox, and Chrome come standard with the baseline image at most sites I've supported.

I think this article is also pretty silly. We have scientists, engineers, accountants, logistics, etc. all using various web apps and sites. Rather than fuck around with installing a browser that may or may not be compatible with any of them, we had our image team blanket install Chrome and Firefox to avoid unnecessary tickets. Just because government websites may not require designers to be compatible with Firefox doesn't mean anything for all those federal jobs that don't only use government sites for work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I thought that too. Poorly worded title.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

tbh I already editorialized the title a bit to make it less exaggerated, wasn't sure how far to take it.