crundle Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 (edited) Here again... I have done some research that says that my bank wont allow me to use a browser other than netscape or ie on a windows os to use their online banking. so because of this, i have to keep a windows partition on my mandrake machine. i have tried to change the browser id in opera and in konqueror, but although the browser changes to ie or netscape, the os remains unix, which results in the page not working. everything i have looked at so far will only let me change the browser type, not the os type. is this correct, or is there a way to change the os for this one website, so i can get rid of xp for good? this one is quite perplexing for me, any help would be great, especially for konqueror, as i like that browser especially. ta, Crundle :) Edited June 20, 2005 by crundle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 I thought that Konqueror let you completely change the user-agent, including the OS... I guess I was wrong. For Firefox, however, I'm sure there are a number of extensions that will allow to set the user-agent to whatever you want. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 I thought that Konqueror let you completely change the user-agent, including the OS... I guess I was wrong.Yves. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yves, you were right. In Konqueror 3.1.4/KDE 3.1.3 the browser identity can be set to "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0, Windows NT 5.1)", which has alias ID "Microsoft Explorer 6 on Windows XP". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 I had a simmilar problem, and the page was IE only (i.e., it didn't function on non IE). But after sending a few mails (complains) to the tech.dep. of my bank and introducing them to w3.org and Linux they made their online banking FF/Linux compatible Maybe you should try that too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crundle Posted June 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 I will keep trying to persevere in getting around this problem. I used option 5 in the new opera browser id to tell the bank website that I was using ie 6 under xp, but it still wont let me in. I have called the bank now, and will keep doing so until they fix the issue ta crundle :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 Or change your bank - choose a linux friendly one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crundle Posted June 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2005 woot! after rebooting the system and installing java 1.5 rpm, my internet banking now works under linux!! using opera 8.01 and setting the browser id to 5 which hides the true browser completely did the trick. thanks for all the advice offered, now i can almost see the time for no more need to dual boot with xp and all it's constant need for security updates!!! yay!!! crundle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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