Getting citicards to work with firefox (Was:: Getting Fox News to work with Firefox)

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jan 22 22:35:18 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 08:45 -0800, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> 
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 07:51 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> >> Unfortunately, while I agree this is the fault of CNN and Fox
> >> respectively, the bottom line is they are not willing to take
> >> responsibility for it. Until they do, the "fault" falls to the Fedora
> >> Project team and 3rd party repository owners to ensure that, when
> >> these
> >> extras are installed, they work for at least the most commonly visited
> >> sites work as designed.
> > 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.
> > --
> 
> I found that when you hit citicards.com, as soon as the site comes up, 
> before it goes blank, you can hit the "Stop" button on the browser and 
> the site then works fine.  If you wait too long the site goes blank. 
> I'm not good enough to create a greasemonkey script to do this.  I 
> wonder if a Greasemonkey expert could assist here.
> 
> Doug P
> 
You are right. But this is just the kind of trick I do not want to have
to apply.
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