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Thu, May 24, 2007

Credit Union Website

Posted at 11:20 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

My credit union has changed its website and arbitrarily stopped being willing to communicate with my favored browser, which is Konqueror.

And when I complained they gave me a completely bogus technical excuse, which is even more annoying. Not only did their excuse have nothing to do with the symptoms I was seeing, and not account for the fact that Firefox worked was accepted while Konqueor (which runs on a closely related browser engine) was being rejected, but they said the problem was because Flash was interfering with things.

I run 64 bit Linux. There is no good Flash implementation for my platform, and anyone who thinks Flash video is necessary for a page displaying bank balances is insane.

Now they are claiming that they mentioned Flash because they are going to be using some kind of Flash based authentication mechanism, which is certainly not going to work with anything on this box. I may find myself looking for a new bank.

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