Re: Netscape 4.7x, unstable and XFree4.3
From: Doug Holland (meldroc_at_frii.com)
Date: 02/28/04
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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 02:37:55 -0700
On Friday 27 February 2004 11:49 am, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Andreas Bach Aaen (abach@mail1.stofanet.dk) [040227 05:32]:
> > I need this old outdated version of Netscape, as my homebanking
> > requires it.
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Sorry, this is another post which does not answer your question.
>
> But IMO, this is as good a reason as any to switch banks. I've done
> this in the past for specifically this reason. I can't stand a bank
> claiming that they provide "Internet Banking" only to find out later
> that (for no good reason) they do browser checks or other broken
> javascript crap which prevents it from running properly. I'd never use
> a bank whose branches featured drive-up tellers that only served SUVs.
> This is the same thing. I see this as an opportunity to let the bank
> know that their broken technology is actively driving their customers
> away to their competitors. Tell them you'll bring your money back if
> they'll give you a call when they've fixed it.
>
> If you don't follow my thinking purely on philosophical grounds,
> extrapolate their incompetence at putting together a simple web
> application to the security of your money elsewhere in the bank's
> various other systems, and switch for your own safety.
True. Any web site that requires such an outdated web browser as Netscape 4.x
is broken, as far as I'm concerned. Banks are notoriously conservative when
it comes to computing, but it can't be THAT hard to keep a web site updated.
Alternatively, The Mozilla based browsers (Mozilla, Firefox, Galeon, etc.) as
well as Konqueror and Opera can be set to lie in their User-Agent strings,
which should get you past your bank's lame browser checks.
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