On Tue, 4 Jun 2024, Rich Shepard wrote:
One financial institution in which I have an account stopped
accepting my Brave browser a couple of weeks ago. It accepted it for
at least a year; I don't recall when I started using brave on this
Slackware64-14.2 desktop. This morning I tried both firefox and
chromium-ungoogled and while each let me log in, the page was blank
and I could not do anything from a menu.
Booting my ThinkPad T430 running Slackware64-15.0 that institution
had no problem with my logging in using the Brave browser.
I can understand a bank's web server accepting on Chrome and M$'s
browser from all OS versions, but not before had I had one reject
all three browsers on the older OS version while accepting them on
the newer version.
Why might that be?
Rich,
Obviously, I can only guess, but only a couple things come to mind.
The newer Slackware may offer
* a newer set of SSL libraries that provide acceptable crypto
algorithms and/or TLS protocols, and/or
* a newer JavaScript (or ECMAScript) implementation that correctly
renders the site's content.
Again, these are just WAGs.
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Paul Heinlein
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