Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 10:03:02 -0500 From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: "parv/FreeBSD" <parv.0zero9+freebsd@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Slight OT: Making Firefox behave the same on FreeBSD and windows Message-ID: <CAGBxaXnOPNQfcU7TtPWcieFnod3TkuXBn9cei=j03CZmOXHT_w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CABObuOr-KcMX60xVRa4FVmCzZE7ZaR_k_C4k=gb34EB34jBGsg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGBxaXkaVUMvoAqWW3P_N5%2BShB32g2v45PuuGKG7cmrjhON9BA@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.2212222228460.29820@tripel.monochrome.org> <CABObuOr-KcMX60xVRa4FVmCzZE7ZaR_k_C4k=gb34EB34jBGsg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 3:28 AM parv/FreeBSD <parv.0zero9+freebsd@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 5:31 PM Chris Hill wrote: >> >> I had the same issue with a Chase account. It seems that they object to >> seeing "FreeBSD" in the user agent string. I used one of the many >> plug-ins to change the string for that site, so my machine would appear >> to be running Linux. It works well. > > > Oh, come on now! Are we in the 1990's where one's HTML > renders sanely, by design, only in a specific browser?! Fuck. It seems to be a growing trend now that browsers can be treated as Turing complete and give almost all the same I/O channels as a raw OS. It is inevitable that someone would do something to break it. A good number of video sites for example have even worse issues. > >> On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > ... >> >> > One thing that *SHOULD* >> > work on FreeBSD that doesn't. I have 108.0.1 installed on both OS's > > (other OS is Windows) >> >> > but my online banking (chase.com) only works on the Windows version >> > and on FreeBSD the account dashboard is so messed up it can't even >> > display any of the data for my accounts. Same issues for >> > Chrome/Chromium > > ... > -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
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