Dear Rohit,
On 9/28/06, Rohit V Bhute rvbhute@gmail.com wrote:
I opened an account with HSBC a few days back for my salary deposits. The online@HSBC services are not working in Ubuntu/Firefox. It requires IE 5.0+ or NS Communicator. I tried fiddling with the User Agent string (strangely, most of the IE User Agent strings I found on the net looked like Mozilla/<some stuff>) but to no avail. I've submitted a complaint form but I'm not expecting them to listen to it.
Simply vote with your valet. Threaten them with discrimination and law suit. I had already had a tiff with them and I refuse to pay them if they don't support other browsers.
Is there any way other than booting into Windows or using IE from Wine? Other than the fact that I would be using, well, IE or win32, I would lose face in front of my sister whom I berate for carrying out *her* online banking business in win32/IE :-(
Don't worry about losing your face. It's better then loosing your money when you use IE to do on-line transactions. Please advice your sis to desist from using IE for online transactions as it could prove financially fatal.
-- Rohit V. Bhute
Have a happy net banking with GNU/Linux+FF :-) With regards,