Silly banks..

[rick130]

I railed against the IT people at the NAB for yonks when I started using FF years ago as it technically wasn't a 'supported' browser, and therefore not 'secure' compared to IE :eek: but still worked fine for this numb nut mechanic.
The IT people there kept saying, "we recommend IE, we don't support alternative browsers".

Now these days FF is all OK and hunky dory with the NAB.

I updated to FF 3.5 the other day and when I logged on to do some net banking yesterday, lo and behold their site told me my browser wasn't supported and I had to go to either MS or Mozilla for the latest version of their respective browser... :rolleyes:






Ok, ok, I just love bank bashing and it was some more ammunition :D

[Debacle]

Thats weird, because I have the latest IE and my NAB site gives me a warning about it and suggests firefox as an alternative.

[Captain_Rightfoot]

From an IT prospective it's quite a minefield supporting all sorts of different browsers. Fortunately for me we can control what people use... but if you have an external facing system keeping up with new versions of browsers would be quite a headache.

Personally, I can't understand why anyone would use IE when Firefox is available but people are creatures of habit..

EDIT: But don't let any of that stop you from having a good whinge :)

[p38arover]

Personally, I can't understand why anyone would use IE when Firefox is available but people are creatures of habit.

'Cos FF3 crashes more often than IE.

Ron (currently using FF3)

[Captain_Rightfoot]

'Cos FF3 crashes more often than IE.

Ron (currently using FF3)

You Didn't like Safari?

[rick130]

'Cos FF3 crashes more often than IE.

Ron (currently using FF3)

really ?
Although I did have the odd freeze up with the more recent updates of FF3.

The few times I've had to use IE on someone else's computer, particularly the ones in the local CTC (Community Technology Centre) I can't wait to get back to FF.
I started loading FF on to the computers there but the Council IT people pulled it off when doing a system cleanup.

[vnx205]

'Cos FF3 crashes more often than IE.

Ron (currently using FF3)
Not on my 8 year old computer running Xubuntu , it doesn't. :p
I can't remember FF3 crashing at all in the last few years.

[Captain_Rightfoot]

Not on my 8 year old computer running Xubuntu , it doesn't. :p
I can't remember FF3 crashing at all in the last few years.

Yeah.. see you can't explain to people that crashing is pretty much a problem for Microsoft users. They just accept it. :o Of course UNIX or linux based systems crash, but for a properly setup installation it should be an exception, not a regular occurrence.

Here is a sample from an old production Oracle server at work. If you don't want to read the geek talk the server was setup in 2000 and has been running for 739 days.

racle8:/home/oracle8/steve> . ./hwspecs.sh

SunOS awfb1 5.6 Generic_105181-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1

ksh: /usr/bin/isainfo: not found

Status of processor 0 as of: 06/18/09 12:10:22

The sparc processor operates at 167 MHz,

Memory size: 256 Megabytes

oracle8:/home/oracle8/steve> uptime

12:10pm up 739 day(s), 19:42, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.04, 0.06

oracle8:/home/oracle8/steve> ll ../junk

-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle8 oradba 182 Feb 28 2000 ../junk

oracle8:/home/oracle8/steve> cat ../junk

select f.file_num,'#',f.dept_file_id,'#',p.PERSON_SURNAME || ', ' ||PERSON_FIRST_NAME||' ' ||PERSON_MIDDLE_NAME as person

from awf_person P, hh_phis F

where p.file_num = f.file_num

[abaddonxi]

'Cos FF3 crashes more often than IE.

Ron (currently using FF3)

Well, there are crashes and then there are crashes.

Sudden impact with the wall is a lot harder to recover from.
:D

[JDNSW]

Been using FF3 since it came out, just about, and it may have crashed once in that time (I suspect a plugin). And, of course, the OS (Hardy) does not crash very often - actually I have had the keyboard/desktop freeze due to a runaway application probably three times in the last three years.

John