alt Hacker NewsIs the implication that Firefox is not maintained or?
The issue presented doesn’t seem to be “an up to date browser check” it seems to be a “is it latest chrome” check, which is a very different thing.
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ibejoeb • yesterday at 6:54 PM
No, not at all. The implication is that the organization is dictating the software that employees are to use. There's nothing unusual about this.
jstummbillig • yesterday at 6:26 PM
If we are meant to believe that this is a Chrome-invasion-move, it's the least effective lever of all times. Most of the time the more plausible explanations are just the likely ones.
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We don't know. The author doesn't mention how current the Firefox browser is/was.
If the organization is indeed enabling a specific check for Chrome that seems a little over the top but they're the ones supporting their users and if they want to make their life easier by only dealing with one browser that's their decision to make. It's like saying that everyone has to use Windows, or a specific line of laptops, or any other standardization to simplify the support workload.