Re: [OT] Internet banking
- From: Peter Moylan <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:59:01 +1100
Peter Weilbacher wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:46:44 UTC, Peter Moylan wrote:
Recently my wife switched to using Windows, and the Internet
banking no longer works! (XP Professional, with Firefox 1.5.) The
problem, it turns out, is that the site uses buggy Javascript (has
anyone ever seen correctly coded Javascript?), and the OS/2
version of Firefox is more tolerant of the errors than the Windows
version is.
That would be news to me, apart from a bug regarding keycode handling on
OS/2 the JavaScript engine in Firefox and Windows and OS/2 is identical.
There are, however, a few settings in the Options panel that would allow
you to customize which JavaScript commands to exclude (like window resizing etc.). Comparing those settings one by one will probably give you the answer.
The answer, to my great embarrassment, turned out to be a problem at
my end. I had somehow (don't ask me how) configured AdBlock to
block one of their scripts.
A support person would never have thought of that, because support
people would never have heard of AdBlock. (Why would anyone want to
block ads? Without the ads, most of the web page would be blank.) But
I was lucky enough to have my problem escalated to someone with
enough technical knowledge to have heard of Firefox - he even installed
it at his end to do a test - and in the process of testing I thought of
disabling the irritating Macromedia Flash ad, at which point I discovered
that something else on that page was already blocked.
We live and (sometimes) learn.
One thing I did discover, to my great delight, was that Firefox lets you
take a spawned page that takes over the entire screen and put it into
a tab instead.
Something that still puzzles me - and I suppose I should really have
started a new thread about this - is that I can't figure out how to force
external applications to open pages into a new tab instead of opening
a new window. (Thunderbird is a real pest in this respect. After
clicking on a few links, you can have dozens of instances of Firefox
open.) In the early versions of the "tabbed browsing" extension, this
was an available option. In more recent versions, it's become an
option that doesn't do anything.
--
Peter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org
Please note the changed e-mail and web addresses. The domain
eepjm.newcastle.edu.au no longer exists.
My e-mail addresses at newcastle.edu.au will probably remain "live"
for a while, but then they will disappear without warning.
The optusnet address still has about 5 months of life left.
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