<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/16 Christopher Joice <<a href="mailto:linuxisthefuture@gmail.com" target="_blank">linuxisthefuture@gmail.com</a>><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><span dir="ltr"></span><div class="Ih2E3d">
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On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 21:24 +0100, David Aldred wrote:
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<pre>What is this 'Firefox' of which you speak?
(Says he from the standpoint of a Sidux/Debian system, which uses Iceweasel
branding anyway! The only hassle is that my on-line banking doesn't
recognise Iceweasel as the same as Firefox, so I have to spoof it ).
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</div><pre>Exactly, Arch Linux has been using the code names for each Firefox release for ages, for exactly these reasons, I currently run "Gran Paradiso", aka Firefox 3.
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Like David, I've had to edit my configuration to change my browser name to Firefox, as banks etc. are too stupid to not go by the rendering engine rather than the name of the gui.</div></blockquote></div><div><br>Now then: is anyone in here close enough to the coding of individual browsers to clarify this? I asked my Bank some time ago why they accepted Safari but not Konqueror, and was told that while they use the same rendering engine, the way they handle cached data varies, and it was the security of the cached data (or to be more precise the fact that certain data was *not* cached under Safari but was under Konqueror) which led to their having Safari on the whitelist but not Konqueror.<br>
<br>If that argument makes sense, then it's reasonable for banks to limit access according to browser rather than rendering engine; I don't know enough about where the engine stops and the browser-specific design takes over to know.<br>
<br>(Even so, you'd think they might know that Iceweasel and Firefox are one and the same - but I must say I've never bothered to point it out to them, and perhaps no-one else has either!). <br><br>--<br>
<font color="#888888">David Aldred</font><br><br></div></div></div>
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