topic Re: Some Federal Agencies require applicants to use Chrome and you cannot access them with Firefox in Discussions

Some Federal Agencies require applicants to use Chrome and you cannot access them with Firefox

RCLP — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 14:51:30 GMT

My organization prefers to use Firefox and other open source tools. However, increasingly, we cannot access some federal sites - we can't get passwords to required grant reporting systems to work. The help desks require us to use Chrome or a few other browsers. We think federal agencies should serve its constituents regardless of the platforms they choose to use. Are others having this experience and is Mozilla addressing this issue?

Re: Some Federal Agencies require applicants to use Chrome and you cannot access them with Firefox

tilwiti — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 15:31:29 GMT

Change the User Agent https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/

Re: Some Federal Agencies require applicants to use Chrome and you cannot access them with Firefox

Honza — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 10:34:47 GMT

Can you share URL of the page you can't use in Firefox? And some instructions so we can try to reproduce the problem? Thank you!

Re: Some Federal Agencies require applicants to use Chrome and you cannot access them with Firefox

tilwiti — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 06:04:05 GMT

Canva Presentation Recording.

Like, what? It seems to me that they use Screen Sharing API. I had to use Brave to record my speech.

Re: Some Federal Agencies require applicants to use Chrome and you cannot access them with Firefox

tilwiti — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 06:11:22 GMT

Some Googling revealed these sites mentioning the issue:

https://posherva.com/

https://eticket.mozio.com/

https://kubecampus.io/kubernetes/learning-kubernetes-faq/

Other results were too specific. It's puzzling why they claim to only support Chrome when Firefox strives for strong standards compatibility.

Re: Some Federal Agencies require applicants to use Chrome and you cannot access them with Firefox

RCLP — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 14:31:34 GMT

https://portal.nifa.usda.gov/cas/login?service#

From this link:

Connectivity and Application Updates

The NIFA Reporting Portal and REEport application are currently active. Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome are the preferred browsers for accessing the NIFA Reporting Portal. For general

Note from me- my password kept failing and I kept getting locked out until I moved to Chrome.

Re: Some Federal Agencies require applicants to use Chrome and you cannot access them with Firefox

RCLP — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 14:34:42 GMT

This is one of the links (there are others):

https://portal.nifa.usda.gov/cas/login?service#

from this link:

Connectivity and Application Updates

The NIFA Reporting Portal and REEport application are currently active. Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome are the preferred browsers for accessing the NIFA Reporting Portal. For general

From me: My password kept failing and I kept getting locked out until I moved to chrome.