Getting Fox News to work with Firefox

[Dotan Cohen]

On 26/01/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 09:21 -0500, Joe Klemmer wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >
> > > Let us forget about news sites for a minute. firefox will not allow you
> > > to check the balance on your credit card by going to: www.citicards.com
> > >
> > > These things really have to be dealt with if Linux is to be a viable
> > > alternative to Windows.
> >
> >       Now this one is completely off base.  The video issue was
> > partially relative in that things might work better if FC came with all
> > the proprietary codecs installed but if firefox doesn't work with
> > citicards.com then it is 100% a problem with the site and nothing at all
> > to do with firefox, fedora, linux or anything at all related to them.
> This belated comment id not completely true. Of course part of the
> problem is with the web site. But since firefox loads the web site in
> Windows part of the problem is with firefox on Linux.
>


The site specifically says that it works on Firefox in Windows and
Mac, but not on Linux. Furthermore, the UA is sniffed.

Dotan Cohen

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