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RKP5637

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15. I use both Chrome and Firefox on Linux. I use Firefox as my primary browser, but

Reply to csziggy (Reply #14)

Fri Jul 20, 2018, 05:56 PM

Jul 2018

always have Chrome available. You could probably use a spoofer to change the header of Firefox as seen by your bank, so they think you are using Chrome. Generally, this works quite well. For example, the Firefox extension "User Agent Spoofer" seems to work quite well and is stable. Often developers / web folks do not want to validate all of the browsers so they pick one and say that's all that works, but often that is not the case. They reject browsers not having Chrome in the header they see from your browser ... and the spoofer changes it to Chrome for the Firefox browser. I've been using this technique for years and years. It's just some FYI info. You can change it anytime you need it.

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Google Chrome Has A Nasty Surprise [View all] RKP5637 Jul 2018 OP

I cannot use Chrome as it interfers with my printing of images I want to use from google katmondoo Jul 2018 #1

I use the "new" Firefox. It works well for me. I also have Chrome loaded. I use Linux. n/t RKP5637 Jul 2018 #3

No problems ever with Firefox here. Squinch Jul 2018 #4

The new Chrome will also include significant design changes teach1st Jul 2018 #2

I have never used Chrome and never will wasupaloopa Jul 2018 #5

It's too invasive for me. I think Firefox has done a great job on the "new" Firefox. n/t RKP5637 Jul 2018 #6

I use Firefox also wasupaloopa Jul 2018 #13

Been hearing about this and yet another reason I don't use Chrome... TreasonousBastard Jul 2018 #7

Opera is good. A lot of people have liked Opera for years. I did try Epic, but it was too RKP5637 Jul 2018 #8

Google flips switch on Chrome's newest defensive technology douglas9 Jul 2018 #9

Thanks for the additional information!!! RKP5637 Jul 2018 #10

Can't stand Chrome, bee a Foxfire user for several years, get better all the time.... Historic NY Jul 2018 #11

I find these recent Firefox releases to be excellent with the move to Firefox Quantum. n/t RKP5637 Jul 2018 #12

I have to use Chrome to access my online bank account info csziggy Jul 2018 #14

I use both Chrome and Firefox on Linux. I use Firefox as my primary browser, but RKP5637 Jul 2018 #15

It's just as easy to use Chrome just for the banking csziggy Jul 2018 #16

Wow, I haven't seen one of those in a long time. The big old Epson printers, real work horses. RKP5637 Jul 2018 #17

Yeah, it's a monster but it is four years old csziggy Jul 2018 #18

Interesting! That, is quite a project!!! n/t RKP5637 Jul 2018 #19