Re: [ILUG-BOM] HSBC online services not working in Ubuntu/Firefox

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

I faced this problem and the solution is simple - fake the useragent string.

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 :-(

There is a FF extension (useragent switcher) that should allow you to set it to the oooooold netscape version and use it.

I am able to use HSBC site with this simple switch. :)

regards, C