<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 21:28, Dotan Cohen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com">dotancohen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
2011/5/26 Uri Even-Chen <<a href="mailto:uri@speedy.net">uri@speedy.net</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> Hi people,<br>
> I recently had to pay taxes to the tax authorities in Israel (income tax). I<br>
> think it's amazing that the tax authorities website supports only MSIE. I<br>
> called their support and asked, they said they don't support Google Chrome<br>
> or Firefox - only MSIE. I'm using Google Chrome and Firefox with all other<br>
> websites, including my bank, but only with the tax authorities website I<br>
> have to use MSIE. I have a bug/virus in MSIE and it took me more than an<br>
> hour and I tried at least 6 times with 2 computers and 3 people on their<br>
> support until I could pay my taxes. Shame on them! Maybe the Israeli<br>
> Internet association should do something about it (revoke their .gov<br>
> domain!)...<br>
<br>
</div>I encourage you to write to them and ask. If the site requires any<br>
particular proprietary software to work then it certainly is not a<br>
website. Simply tranfering information via tcp/ip on port 80 does not<br>
make the communication a website.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div>I don't have the energy for this fighting windmills. What are the chances that they change it because of me? I already said it verbally to their support team, but I don't have the energy to write them a letter. And also the Israeli Internet association. They know how to be active about issues that matter to them. I guess this issue doesn't matter to them. I think it's a shame on the government, and if I had more energy I might have refused to pay taxes until this issue is fixed. But I use Windows (we actually have two computers with Windows at home), and I can use MSIE if I want to, and eventually it worked. So I paid my taxes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>By the way, I don't know what kind of spyware/virus I have, that my MSIE opens with new websites all the time, although I'm using Google Chrome. I think I will try NOD anti virus to check if I have a virus (currently I'm using the free and open source Clamwin). Any suggestion for free software to eliminate this virus?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Uri Even-Chen</div><div>Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559</div><div>E-mail: <a href="mailto:uri@speedy.net" target="_blank">uri@speedy.net</a></div><div>Website: <a href="http://www.speedy.net/" target="_blank">http://www.speedy.net/</a></div>
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