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Post by ricardobayes »

sevenf0ur wrote: post #98
ricardobayes wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to love Firefox, but fell out of love majorly. First there's a still long-standing bug (5 years and counting) that newly opened tabs don't have access to localstorage. Then 96.0 broke a lot of our code somehow. Cross-checked with 95 and everything still worked fine.

I hit and reported a very similar bug over a year ago. Try to add a cookie or localstorage entry in Dev Tools on a page that outputs JSON, such as: https://api.ipify.org/?format=json (Spoiler: it's broken) The DX for firefox just isn't that great when compared to Chrome.

FF has presently 163 open bugs for localstorage-related issues. Some of them open for 3+ years. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=localst...

Re: Number of people on government websites now

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Post by jwithington »

plasma_beam wrote: post #85

This site went live in 2015 and hasn't changed too much since then. Participating agencies have their google analytics data collected by GSA, which is hosting this webpage. It's very useful, and I've referred to this site many times over the years (probably bc a couple sites I've worked on are in the top 50!). For those people wanting other awesome and informative govt sites, take a look at https://www.usaspending.go…

Thanks for sharing that link to USA Spending! Seems like a lot of interesting information is buried there…and they have an API!

Re: Number of people on government websites now

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Post by shadowgovt »

eminence32 wrote: post #93
plasma_beam wrote: post #85

This site went live in 2015 and hasn't changed too much since then. Participating agencies have their google analytics data collected by GSA, which is hosting this webpage. It's very useful, and I've referred to this site many times over the years (probably bc a couple sites I've worked on are in the top 50!). For those people wanting other awesome and informative govt sites, take a look at https://www.usaspending.go…

I bet the US government has lots of useful websites that I've never even heard of. But every now and again I randomly stumble across one (like the one from your comment), and it makes me wonder if there is a "discovery problem" here. What other useful govt sites are out there, but are unknown to me.

The discovery problem is not only known, it's writ large. There is a vast bureaucracy of benefits available to Americans that most Americans don't know about because the creation of the programs rarely includes advertising in the budget.

If you've ever seen the "question mark vest guy" (Matthew Lesko, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Lesko), who offers book on federal programs available and how to take advantage of them... He's been criticized as a charlatan or misleading people, or encouraging people to "freeload," but here's the thing... He's really quite sincere. He believes the US government bureaucracy has failed in its duty of public information and education and is full of under-utilized programs that, as a result, become tools for the informed to siphon resources from those the programs were intended to help. He thinks that's unfair. The "Free Money Now" book covers and TV advertisements are employed because his target audience is assumed to not be savvy enough to do the research themselves, so he's trying to reach them with noise and spectacle where quiet black-and-white announcements buried in the back pages of local newspapers have already failed (and the fact that he started his work in the era where the easiest way to reach his target audience was still books because the sorts of people who didn't know about benefits programs they were eligible for were strongly correlated with lack of Internet access, not surprisingly).

Re: Number of people on government websites now

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Post by bmhin »

Shalomboy wrote: post #86
hollerith wrote: post #14

Chromebooks have high (unit) sales (some say) but I've yet to see any signs that they are used a lot. Here only 1.4% of visits are from ChromeOS.

The fact that a lot of Chromebooks are being sold is fairly solid; I would reckon that the questionable claim is that Chromebooks have strong sales traction with retail consumers. I bought myself a Lenovo Duet tablet last fall because I wanted a device that could last multiple days with intermittent streaming use and I missed the feeling of a cramped 10" netbook. I got it on sale for $200 USD and was floored by how n…

I use one and have had a couple over the years. Decently cheap and I functionally just want a laptop form factor and UX for a tablet use case: web browsing, some light app usage (often for casting / streaming), and also being able to type as needed, all from an actual couch / on the lap / wherever. Used to be no Android App support so that part was a no go and now you have the linux containers to fall back on if you need to run something else or want a proper terminal.

I have a bulky work laptop and a big desktop PC. The niche left over maps to a nice slim, fanless device for casual usage very well in the Chromebook space. Maybe preaching to the choir here, but my keyboard will need to be pried from my cold, dead hands and the tablet + detachable options all seemed way too delicate.

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Post by pawsforthought »

rvz wrote: post #36
ayngg wrote: post #28

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Aren't they basically being kept alive by Google at this point? Almost 90% of their revenue is from that one deal at it has felt like they have been more concerned with other initiatives for a while now.

yes. 14 years on and still haven't found a way to make themselves any less independent of Google's money. >90% of their revenue derived from their direct anti-privacy competitor makes them entirely on life support. Rust was their opportunity to escape that, now they just threw it away and now they are back to where they started. Firefox is in decline. Nothing has changed.

In what way did Firefox throw anything away with Rust? (Just don’t know the story.)

Re: Number of people on government websites now

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Post by deltree7 »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #31
tradertef wrote: post #21

India is 7.7% of total traffic and China is 5%. It is night now, but still these numbers are surprisingly high.

The most common website is USPS by a significant margin. Could that explain much of the international traffic?

Immigration and Travel too

Re: Number of people on government websites now

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Post by earthscienceman »

WesternWind wrote: post #49
mobilio wrote: post #48

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And Safari - >36%

That's probably IOS safari

The last bastion, never thought I would approve of an impact of Apple's lock-in on iDevicess but it's the only thing keeping the web free.

Re: Number of people on government websites now

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Post by earthscienceman »

tagoregrtst wrote: post #76
kortilla wrote: post #67

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But why would a regular person visit those sites? I hold a PhD and I think I visited the nsf website <50 times during my entire academic career.

Im a researcher in a government lab and I don't think Ive ever been on it. NIST? Definitely LLNL MPI tutorials? Obviously. But NSF… never?

Also a professional researcher in a government lab. The NSF site is a once or twice a year visit.
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