Re: [Sheflug] browser lockin.

[Steve Tickle <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 22:25 15/10/02 +0100, Gary Stimson wrote:
>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..)

I use and like Opera for both Linux and Windoze (the free, ad carrying 
version). However, I've found that it doesn't "do" javascript very well.

Is the purchased version better at this than the free version?


Steve

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