Just a curious type question, has anyone run into a problem using firefox or
opera at some sites, banking sites in paricular. My bank will not let me
access the account unless I use netscape. Absolutely refuses to allow me to
access my account with either firefox or opera.

ken

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:12:15 GMT, No_One <no_one@no_where.com> wrote:

>
>Just a curious type question, has anyone run into a problem using firefox or
>opera at some sites, banking sites in paricular. My bank will not let me
>access the account unless I use netscape. Absolutely refuses to allow me to
>access my account with either firefox or opera.
>
>ken

I don't do online banking, but this extension might be able to help?

http://chrispederick.com/work/useragentswitcher/

And here's a lot of user agent strings, for if you need to pretend a
particulair browser version (or the layest netscape or opera), as the
list of user agents that come with extension is a little outdated.

Manuel

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:17:14 +0200, Manuel Otto
<not-for-mail@adress.is.invalid> wrote:

>On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:12:15 GMT, No_One <no_one@no_where.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>Just a curious type question, has anyone run into a problem using firefox or
>>opera at some sites, banking sites in paricular. My bank will not let me
>>access the account unless I use netscape. Absolutely refuses to allow me to
>>access my account with either firefox or opera.
>>
>>ken
>
>I don't do online banking, but this extension might be able to help?
>
>http://chrispederick.com/work/useragentswitcher/
>
>And here's a lot of user agent strings, for if you need to pretend a
>particulair browser version (or the layest netscape or opera), as the
>list of user agents that come with extension is a little outdated.
>
>Manuel

Forgot link to user agent strings:

http://www.useragentstring.com/pages...gentstring.php

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No_One wrote:
> Just a curious type question, has anyone run into a problem using firefox or
> opera at some sites, banking sites in paricular. My bank will not let me
> access the account unless I use netscape. Absolutely refuses to allow me to
> access my account with either firefox or opera.

My bank has no problems with Firefox. http://www. tdcanadatrust.com/


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greymaus@gmaildo.tcom wrote:
>
> Anyone else think that Firefox is a resource hog?

It still jumps to pages without being told to do so. And quite
often it breaks and crashes, with the little send/don't send message
to mozilla, especially with realaudio.

cordially, as always,

rm

Handover Phist <jason@nospamwebsterscafe.com> wrote:
> greymaus@gmaildo.tcom said "firefox"
>>
>> Anyone else think that Firefox is a resource hog?
>
> So use lynx or get a machine with resources.

Haven't heard of links, eh? Of course the svgalib doesn't work
anymore but links still renders tables.

cordially, as always,

rm

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:12:15 GMT, No_One <no_one@no_where.com> wrote:

>
>Just a curious type question, has anyone run into a problem using firefox or
>opera at some sites, banking sites in paricular. My bank will not let me
>access the account unless I use netscape. Absolutely refuses to allow me to
>access my account with either firefox or opera.

Finicky javascript?

Grant.
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No_One wrote:

> Just a curious type question, has anyone run into a problem using firefox
> or opera at some sites, banking sites in paricular. *My bank will not let
> me access the account unless I use netscape. *Absolutely refuses to allow
> me to access my account with either firefox or opera.

Sign up to uk.comp.os.linux you'll find an almost constantly running thread
on UK on-line banking and linux/browsers. If it isn't running when you get
there just ask the question above, or look in google groups
uk.comp.os.linux
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Apr 29: Responding to nordle...

[...]
>>> Just because an app is using 20MB of shared resources, no other app
>>> may be open using them, so you cant simply say an app using 20MB
>>> RES with 10MB SHR is only really 10MB, as those shared libs might
>>> not actually be used by another app. Equally you cant say holly
>>> crap this app is using loads, if most of the libs are loaded as
>>> standard by your desktop (thinking kde here).
>>>
>>> But, yeah, in the example above, it does look like Opera is using
>>> more resources than firefox.
>>
>>
>> Wouldn't this comparison also depend on which version of
>> Opera one has installed, shared or static?
>>
>
> It would, although you could probably guess by the SHR value being
> nearly 50% of the mem usage that its the shared version.
>
> I'm not bashing any browser, for some folk memory usage is critical,
> I'm not bothered unless it sucks the life out of my system, which
> neither browser do.


I'm using an AMD500 with 256Mb RAM and Opera 9.20. The older
6.11 ran just about ok on this, but 9.20 is like running in
treacle. Everything else is snap-to-it fast except Opera. I
tested the shared version, had to install QT, and the static
version which might be slightly less sluggish, though I may
be kidding myself, so I dumped QT and stuck with Opera
static for now. I tend to use Dillo for most of my browsing
so I don't waste my BB capacity by sand-trapping things
through Opera.

It does seem to me that there is a lot of "feature creep"
that appears with each expansion of the capacity of the
average home computer. Fortulately, there are usually Linux
projects like Dillo to solve these problems and give us
back our hardware.

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On 2007-04-28, nordle <na@na.na> wrote:
>
> But, yeah, in the example above, it does look like Opera is using more
> resources than firefox.

Thanks for that informative reply. Problem is that one of my favourite
sites prefers Opera.


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