Getting Fox News to work with Firefox

[David Boles]

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Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 17:34 -0800, David Boles wrote:
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>> Christopher A. Williams wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 16:55 -0800, David Boles wrote:
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>>>> Christopher A. Williams wrote:
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>>>>> I've written to all of them before - including Citibank (citicards was
>>>>> mentioned in a separate answer on this thread). I got no response from
>>>>> CNN or Fox.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ironically, I was shopping for a credit card when I ran into Citibank's
>>>>> website issues. I told them that I would not apply for a credit card
>>>>> from them if their Website wouldn't support my choice of Web browser.
>>>>> Their response: An on-line application form by e-mail pointing to their
>>>>> website. Nice...!
>>>>>
>>>>> I actually had one Website administrator (http://www.petharbor.com) tell
>>>>> me that IE6 was the only "authorized" browser for viewing their site. I
>>>>> told them that, as a site promoting a public service relied upon by city
>>>>> governments, it was not their place to say which browsers were
>>>>> "authorized". I got no further response. I also don't use them anymore -
>>>>> I guess they have enough assistance from "authorized" browser running
>>>>> people who don't mind frame based sites.
>>>>>
>>>>> Even if it's only in a small way, I vote with my wallet when this stuff
>>>>> happens. Capital One has a site that works just fine. So does American
>>>>> Express. Citibank is not the only credit card company in town, and I
>>>>> figure that if they won't listen to me about this when it comes to
>>>>> customer service, they probably also won't listen to me about other
>>>>> issues if they were to come up as well...
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone from Citibank care to comment??
>>>> I am NOT from Citibank.
>>>>
>>>> But you never said what was your preferred browser.
>>> Wow! I re-read that a couple of times and you're right!! On Linux, I
>>> tend to prefer Firefox. I'll use Konqueror as well when it suits what I
>>> need or feel like a change.
>>>
>>> Incidentally, none of the above sites worked very well for me using
>>> Konqueror either. I have the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox working
>>> with Fox News now. For some reason, Konqueror still isn't working with
>>> Fox.
>> First? You kinda' highjacked his thread with you Citibank problem. You should
>> have started a one. Not a big deal. That happens here often.  ;-)
> It is hard to highjack a thread that you started. The topic as I saw it
> was sites that could not be reached properly with firefox. Just for
> accuracy. www.citicards.com is the cite that can't be accessed.


I can. Rawhide soon to be FC& and Firefox 2.0.0.1. No cpmplaint from the site
at all. They want you to have Flash 9 but all that does is give you the ads.


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  David
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