Just got this notice from my bank: No more Firefox
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#2It's Internet Explorer all over again.
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#3My bank (B of A) started complaining about Debian's firefox-esr being too old and out of date, so I loaded the bleeding edge version just to access my bank account, but use the esr version for general browsing.
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#4It's Internet Explorer all over again.
Wonder what will be the next javascript of today ?
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#5Re: Just got this notice from my bank: No more Firefox
#6I wonder if people realize how low Firefox marketshare has fallen, or if people are stuck in a 2010s-era idea of what the web browser landscape is like. I also think the prevalence of Firefox among the (overall tiny) desktop Linux demographic tends to warp developer perspectives.
It's under 4% - for all intents and purposes a dead browser. I certainly wouldn't devote any engineering hours towards supporting it.
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#7This is pretty lame BS. I am literally right in the middle of building a public web app (also for a bank) that does not have any sort of arbitrary user agent constraints.
As long as your browser supports reasonably-modern things like flexbox and media queries, my app is just going to work on your machine. Even if it doesn't support these things, I don't see any reason to artificially get in the way of something you might otherwise be able to string along regardless.
I roll 100% vanilla JS/CSS these days so that I can avoid getting entrapped in the kinds of hells that likely entrapped these mbna web developers. It is quite possible they use some JS framework that has a tight dependency on a certain cohort of browser vendors & versions.
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#9I wonder if people realize how low Firefox marketshare has fallen, or if people are stuck in a 2010s-era idea of what the web browser landscape is like. I also think the prevalence of Firefox among the (overall tiny) desktop Linux demographic tends to warp developer perspectives. It's under 4% - for all intents and purposes a dead browser. I certainly wouldn't devote any engineering hours towards supporting it.
Not to mention, the core development team has been cut.
Mozilla is rebranding itself into a “Social Justice For Tech” marketing firm.
There are two significant platforms left Chromium and WebKit. I hope that isn’t the future, but browser dominance is such an obscure, indirect problem to the industry that no company would bother touching it.
Re: Just got this notice from my bank: No more Firefox
#10I wonder if people realize how low Firefox marketshare has fallen, or if people are stuck in a 2010s-era idea of what the web browser landscape is like. I also think the prevalence of Firefox among the (overall tiny) desktop Linux demographic tends to warp developer perspectives. It's under 4% - for all intents and purposes a dead browser. I certainly wouldn't devote any engineering hours towards supporting it.
Not to mention, the core development team has been cut. Mozilla is rebranding itself into a “Social Justice For Tech” marketing firm. There are two significant platforms left Chromium and WebKit. I hope that isn’t the future, but browser dominance is such an obscure, indirect problem to the industry that no company would bother touching it.
Not sure where you got the idea that the core development team has been cut, Firefox development remains strong. For example, here's a 1,000+ line patch that just landed two days ago.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1779952