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Firefox is on the brink of being dropped by the US Government (www.brycewray.com)
submitted 11 months ago by morrowind@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So changing the user agent to chrome to fool websites that work shittier on non chromium stuff will ruin this metric?

[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

No, what this means is sites might start adopting features like PassKeys - a major browser feature that works in every browser except FireFox and one where you just might not be able to access the service, at all, unless your browser has support.

(Passkeys are a replacement for passwords - essentially the idea is to take the technology commonly used for second factor authentication and use it as your "first factor" instead)

[–] mormund@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

Maybe its because I'm on Nightly but PassKeys work natively for me on Windows 11 with Firefox already