Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Barclays says no to Firefox
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | A READER ATTEMPTING to log into a Barclays web site here found himself
> | with a little bit of a problem.
> |
> | He’s running some operating system called Linux and using Fireferret but
> | gets an annoying message from Barclays and Mind Leaders (motto:
> | e-learning that works) telling him to go away and use Internet Exploder.
> |
> | We tried it using Windows XP and Fireferret and got the same result too,
> | as you can see below.
> `----
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/03/barclays-firefox
>
> IE7 permits the system to be hijacked and it is also spyware by design
> (Microsoft informed of all Web pages that users visit). Nice, isn't it?
How odd. One of my accounts is with Barclay's, & I have no trouble logging
in with Firefox (or Epiphany for that matter).
Nor have I got any kind of spoofing extension running in either browser.
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<HollY>: It takes time, this. One slight error in any of my thirteen billion
calculations and we'll be blasted to smithereens.
Here we go, then: 10, 9, 8, 6, 5--
<Rimmer> Holly, *where's* 7?
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