On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Abhinav Modi <[email protected]>wrote:
> > 2009/10/28 Mallikarjun <[email protected]> > > >> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Ravi Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Kartik S <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I tried paying my BSNL landline and mobile bills online using Firefox >>>> 3.0. I could complete my landline transaction, but not my Cellone using >>>> firefox. I also tried user agent switcher( Internet explorer) . Ultimately >>>> I >>>> succeeded using windows xp in virtual box(using IE of course). >>>> >>> >>> >>> Yes, there are many sites, which proudly say they work on IE only. I >>> cannot remember, but perhaps PNB bank site even says "For secure >>> transaction, use IE only" and works with IE only. I don't know why? Mainly >>> this is not wrong with the PNB, but those Software Giants in India, which >>> has most faith in Microsoft technologies and had never peeked out of their >>> room. They may not be knowing about the wornderful opensource available to >>> us and the bleeding edge technology. >>> >>> So, perhaps, while browsing these sites, you won't be able to perform the >>> transaction. You can try to use the IE4Linux (i guess the name is correct) >>> on Ubuntu for those sites, or can have Windows on VirtualBox for such >>> difficult situation. :) >>> >>> But *User Agent Switcher *addon for Firefox should help in such case. >> Latest version simulates IE 6,7,8. >> >>> > > Not necessarily. User Agent Switcher only sends IE (or the agent you > configure) with the page request. There can be javascript code, activex > controls etc which only works with IE, and not with FF or other browsers. > > Oh, then I was wrong. Thanks and sorry for wrong info. > Regards > Abhinav > > -- > http://www.employees.org/~abhinav/blog<http://www.employees.org/%7Eabhinav/blog> > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > >
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