Re:Firefox will no longer be a supported browser – service.m...
by justinclift on Friday August 05, 2022 @05:53AM
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> I never figured out what his reasoning was.
Probably being a control freak, then making shit up to try and force ppl to follow his dictates.
Re:Firefox will no longer be a supported browser – service.m...
by hestefisk on Friday August 05, 2022 @03:49AM
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Could be the site was configured to use IE6 NTLM authentication, which other browsers don’t support. Could be to maintain an audit trail of who accessed what, eg for SOX compliance reasons. It was / is not uncommon for big corporations with an SOE / golden image with Windows vXX and IE vXX to do this. Not saying this to defend his / her dickhead behaviour, though.
It’s very different (and extremely lazy) for a public web site.
Re:Firefox will no longer be a supported browser – service.m...
by olyjohn on Friday August 05, 2022 @02:26PM
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Chrome and Firefox have both supported NTLM for years.
Re:Firefox will no longer be a supported browser – service.m...
by Ygg2 on Friday August 05, 2022 @03:50AM
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Yeah, and by pushing out features, Google is building a moat. You must be this rich to enter, otherwise you will get left in the dirt.
Mozilla isn't fully blameless but Web is turning into OS 2.0
However, at $BIG_CORP, we had a massive internal website that did exactly this. Naturally, people bypassed this by changing their user-agent. When the product owner realized this, he flew into a rage on Slack and threatened that people bypassing the block could be help criminally responsible for damaging infrastructure. I never figured out what his reasoning was.