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Maybe I'm hangin' out in the wrong neighborhoods, but I seem to increasingly encounter sites that aren't Firefox friendly. Today at the grocery store I "earned" five song downloads from Sony Connect. Logged on and was told it only accommodates IE 5.5 or above. And I used to be able to do on-line banking, but the bank "upgraded" its system and now I have to use IE.

Oh, well.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

1 posted on 07/26/2005 8:27:58 PM PDT by Mike Bates
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To: Mike Bates

Use the User Agent Switcher extension for Firefox. Most of the time, you can just fake the site to think you're running IE, and everything works fine. Ignorant web developers are most to blame.


2 posted on 07/26/2005 8:32:21 PM PDT by sigSEGV
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To: Mike Bates

firefox certainly is a better mousetrap.


4 posted on 07/26/2005 8:42:30 PM PDT by flashbunny (Always remember to bring a towel!)
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To: Mike Bates

The reason Firefox has been downloaded 75 million times:

Every time they find a security update you have to download the whole program.

There are actually 100 users who have updated 750,000 times each. I know, I downloaded it again on all 5 of my computers last night. That's 5 more downloads!


7 posted on 07/27/2005 8:33:16 AM PDT by Poser (Willing to fight for oil)
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