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On Thursday 07 February 2008, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: |
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> Mick wrote: |
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> > Basic web browsers do not have the javascript, Java (and soon enough |
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> > flash?) functionality that the majority of banking sites require. |
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> > Wouldn't Knoppix with its Firefox and equivalents do the job for you, |
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> > after you set root and knoppix passwds? BTW, Konqueror will also work |
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> > with many banking sites, but you may need to change the browser agent |
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> > identification, treatment of cookies and so on. YMMV. |
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> I've had some success (one of two sites) with the opera browser. Free as |
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> in beer. |
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The original post was about security rather than browser compatibility, but |
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for what it's worth Opera can leave fewer traces behind than other browsers |
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do. I also use Opera to check online banking sites and have similarly had |
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success with more than a couple of them. However, I had to mask the user |
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agent as MSIE, or lately Firefox for it to work properly. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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