firefox and Bank Leumi web site

[Shlomi Fish]

On Friday 11 Dec 2009 10:17:37 Amos Shapira wrote:
> 2009/12/11 Rafi Gordon <rafigordon at gmail.com>
> 
> > 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).
> 
> Not to dish Firefox (which is my current browser) but I just read in
> responses to the Chrome Linux Beta announcement in the Israeli media
> that it supports Hebrew sites pretty well, even those which are "IE
> only".

I wouldn't recommend to encourage web-designers to create web-sites that are 
not compatible with Firefox due to being non-standard. By all means, they 
should check their sites with Firefox, or alternatively suffer the constant 
complaints of people who don't use it and the loss of visitors and customers. 
There's no excuse to keeping non-standard web-sites broken just because 
they're working with MSIE or other non-standard browsers.

> 
> It might be worth a consideration too, in addition to Konquerer.
> 

I would recommend against Konqueror. It tends to break even on fully standard 
sites (much more than Firefox) due to its numerous bugs, and has been heavily 
under-maintained lately. There are some other browsers based on WebKit around, 
which should be less buggy.

> The only matter which stops me from trying Chrome further right now is
> that it doesn't save password encrypted on Linux, with no positive
> response from Google in sight.

Good luck on getting a response from Google. I've waited for several months on 
trying to get a human response from AdSense, and didn't eventually, despite 
the fact I've tried everything I could think of:

http://community.livejournal.com/shlomif_hsite/11327.html

I would expect them to be even less responsive for Chrome/Chromium which 
brings them absolutely zero revenue.

Is Chrome Beta available for distributions other than Ubuntu? (Like Mandriva 
which I use.) And finally there's this:

http://lwn.net/Articles/364528/

Quoting from it:

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Fedora engineering manager Tom "spot" Callaway looks at Chromium development 
on his blog. Specifically, he has been building Chromium from source and makes 
it available for Fedoras 10-12, but hasn't packaged it up officially; in the 
blog post, he outlines reasons why. "Google is forking existing FOSS code bits 
for Chromium like a rabbit makes babies: frequently, and usually, without much 
thought. Rather than leverage the existing APIs from upstream projects like 
icu, libjingle, and sqlite (just to name a few), they simply fork a point in 
time of that code and hack their API to shreds for chromium to use. This is 
akin to much of the Java methodology, which I can sum up as 'I'd like to use 
this third-party code, but my application is too special to use it as is, so I 
covered it with Bedazzler Jewels and Neon Underlighting, then bury my blinged 
out copy in my application.'. A fair amount of the upstream Chromium devs seem 
to have Java backgrounds, which may explain this behavior, but it does not 
excuse it. This behavior should be a last resort, not a first instinct."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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