Hello,
This was something that came up during "The Big Open" at Wikimania, when Katherine Maher talked with Ryan Merkley (CEO of Creative Commons) and Mark Surman (ED of Mozilla Foundation). One of the themes mentioned was that our projects need to work together and support each other.
In that vein, I'm interested in what people think about promoting Firefox to users who are using legacy browsers that we don't support at Grade A (or some other criteria). As part of the "drop IE8 on XP" project[1] we're already promoting Firefox as the alternative option. I was imagining it could be a small and unobtrusive bubble notification[2], similar to those that Google pushes Chrome on people with.
If users use modern browsers, they're going to have better security support, and most likely a better experience browsing Wikimedia sites too. We'd be improving the web by reducing legacy browsers, and allowing us to move forward with newer technology sooner (ideally).
And we'd be supporting a project that is ideologically aligned with us: Mozilla.
Thoughts, opinions?
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147199 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bubble_notifications
Thanks, -- Legoktm