[OT]:Re: firefox and Bank Leumi web site

[guy keren]

if are a bank-leumi customer and want to work via the internet - just 
ask them to grant you access. don't let them sell you any "digital 
services" extra thing - it appears to be beneficial only if you do a LOT 
of transactions every month - and by doing a lot of transactions, you 
save peanuts per transaction - but you pay much more in total - and you 
perform operations that anyone other then a day-trader has no reason to 
do - and day-traders would do much better to open an account with a 
private investing bank - they take _much_ lower payments per transaction.

regarding _doing_ stocks/bonds/whatever transactions - as i said, it 
doesn't work with firefox on linux. when i wrote to them about it a long 
time ago - they mumbled something about not supporting firefox. i didn't 
see any change in their policy since then. i do the transactions via IE6 
running on win98 (that's the last version of windows i bought) running 
inside a virtual machine. it works, albeit not too nicely (a lot of 
refreshes that make it quite painfully slow).

--guy

Rafi Gordon wrote:
> Guy,
> 
> First thanks a lot for your detailed answer.
> 
>> p.s. why do you want to register to their "digital services"? it looks like
>> a rip-off.
> 
> I do not know much about their "digital services", it was once offered
> to me and they could not answer me at that time whether they support
> firefox or not, so I did not asked for further any details about their services.
> 
> I thought of using their "digital services" for  buying/selling stocks and
> also performing deposits (hafkadot) to pakam (though rarely used recently).
> 
> Rafi
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:52 PM, guy keren <choo at actcom.co.il> wrote:
>> Rafi Gordon wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>  I saw that Bank Leumi web site  is alleged to
>>> finally support FireFox under Linux.
>>> see:
>>> http://twitter.com/haizaar/status/5923095225
>>>
>>> I would like to hear if anyone has had any experience with it lately.
>>> I don't want to use
>>> ie6 and I would like to get feedback about accessing
>>> Bank Leumi web site with FireFox under Linux before subscribing to
>>> their digital services. (I don't have Windows, so the option
>>> of accessing bank leumi site from internet explorer is not relevant for
>>> me).
>>
>> they work for simple operations (see what's going in your account, read
>> letters, etc.).
>>
>> their trading services do NOT work with firefox under linux. you can see
>> your portfolio - but you cannot buy/sell and you cannot view specific
>> stocks. plus you keep get an error popup every minute while just viewing
>> your portfolio staying "News not found" (you get the same popup if you try
>> to click on any java-script-based button in the trading part of their site).
>>
>> note: it does with with IE6 on windows 98 (albeit with some problems here
>> and there).
>>
>> p.s. why do you want to register to their "digital services"? it looks like
>> a rip-off.
>>
>> --guy
>>