Re: [Sheflug] browser lockin.

[Gary Stimson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:28 15/09/02 +0100, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>   Just tried to access halifax "if" banking site, and its stopped working 
> with mozilla, I ring them up and I get the pat "we prefer people to use IE".

You could try Opera (http://www.opera.com). It's not open source or free, 
so no good if you're a purist, but it is quite cheap and my personal 
browser of choice.

One neat feature that may help your question is its ability to "Identify as 
MSIE 5" (or other browsers), which fibs to the web site that it's Internet 
Explorer 5 and also changes its rendering and Javascript behaviour to 
closely match IE's. I find that most sites that complain about browsers 
will work if I use this feature.

I should say that I've only tried Opera for a short time on linux but use 
it all the time on windoze. (Yes, I'm still running Windows on my desktop 
and linux on my servers but the release of KDE3 has got me seriously 
reconsidering this..)

Gary


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