MCBastos wrote, on 11/5/2012 23:57:
Interviewed by CNN on 11/05/2012 18:37, Rubens told the world:
I have been able to access my bank services using Seamonkey by
installing the
"User Agent Switcher" extension and configuring that to spoof Firefox 11.
Now, the bank is requiring customers to install a proprietary "security"
extension
developed for Firefox, but that does not install, saying it is not
compatible with Seamonkey 2.9.1.
I have also tried to install the "checkCompatibility 1.3" extension but
it did not help.
Rubens, I'm guessing you are from Brazil like me?
Well... here's the thing: those "security add-ons" apparently have
binary modules, and as such they *have* to be recompiled for every new
Mozilla browser version. Hacking the RDF is not enough. For instance,
Itaú STILL hasn't released a Firefox 12-compatible version of their
plugin, so I wasn't able to update Firefox yet (they tell me the new
version should be ready by May 16, by the way... I don't know how is the
situation in other banks, but it seems to be about the same, for all
banks that use G-Buster security technology)
Even if you hack the RDF to list Seamonkey as compatible, you still
probably won't be able to install the plugin in Seamonkey 2.9.1 --
because it's the wrong Gecko version. It *might* be possible to fool it
into installing on Seamonkey 2.8, or perhaps after the new version of
the plugin is (finally) released.
Myself, I sorta gave up on using Seamonkey for banking. It's the banks'
fault for using heavy-handed, poorly-supported security solutions. What
I'm doing now is this: I have a folder with Portable Firefox 11 which I
use *only* for banking. That way, its out-of-date status does not impact
my regular browsing. Being the Portable version, it doesn't try to steal
the "default browser" setting from Seamonkey (and I can even have a
regular, updated, copy of Firefox too, if I wish).
It's a bother, but it's still WAY, WAY better than using Internet
Explorer for banking -- besides all the reasons not to like IE (and I
see you are on XP, so you can't even have the slightly-less-evil IE9),
the Internet Explorer version of the G-Buster so-called "security
solution" installs as a rootkit, and causes all sorts of problems.
Hello MC, yes I am from Brazil like you.
You went right to the point: I am a Itaú bank customer, and in order to
avoid all
the hassles caused by the G-Buster "solution" (and also because I hate
the evil IEs)
I was using Firefox 11 to do my home banking.
Surprisingly, after abandoning Firefox 11 and upgrading my old Seamonkey
1.1.19
to version 2.9.1, I was still able to use my account *even without*
installing
the G-Buster extension.
After a while, somehow they noticed that and since two days ago that is
no longer working.
Thanks for sharing you portable Firefox 11 solution, it is a great idea
and for sure
I am going to use it, hoping we can go back to Seamonkey for home banking
some day in the future.
About the install.rdf hacking as commented by some fellows, I really did
that
successfully for some extensions, but for this specific case it didn´t work.
Regards,
Rubens
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