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SunTrust Bank has no love for Firefox
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| I complained when I couldn't use their online bill paying website. They
replied promptly with:
Thank you for contacting SunTrust regarding your browser compatibility
inquiry.
We apologize for any inconvenience; however, Firefox browsers are not
supported with Bill Pay. The only Mozilla-based browser we can dedicate
support to is netscape Navigator. Due to the frequent release schedule
of browsers like Firefox, we are unable to commit support for these
browsers. For more information regarding supported browsers, you may
wish to contact our Internet Banking Department at 800-382-3232.
If you have any additional questions or comments, please feel free to
contact us. We are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and look
forward to satisfying your financial needs.
Sincerely,
Stacy T.
Customercare@ecare.SunTrust.com
SunTrust will never send unsolicited emails asking for your personal or
account information, such as passwords, Social Security numbers, PINs,
credit or Check Card numbers, or other confidential information.
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| On Wed, 17 May 2006 21:27:33 -0400, damon <damonriley@alumni.DONTSPAM.umass.edu>
wrote:
>I complained when I couldn't use their online bill paying website. They
>replied promptly with:
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>Thank you for contacting SunTrust regarding your browser compatibility
>inquiry.
>
Well, one of Canada's largerst (and IMHO: best) banks has no problem with
Firefox: Using the on-line financial services works just fine . .
John <><
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| damon wrote:
> I complained when I couldn't use their online bill paying website. They
> replied promptly with:
>
> Thank you for contacting SunTrust regarding your browser compatibility
> inquiry.
>
> We apologize for any inconvenience; however, Firefox browsers are not
> supported with Bill Pay. The only Mozilla-based browser we can dedicate
> support to is netscape Navigator. Due to the frequent release schedule
> of browsers like Firefox, we are unable to commit support for these
> browsers. For more information regarding supported browsers, you may
> wish to contact our Internet Banking Department at 800-382-3232.
>
> If you have any additional questions or comments, please feel free to
> contact us. We are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and look
> forward to satisfying your financial needs.
>
> Sincerely,
> Stacy T.
> Customercare@ecare.SunTrust.com
>
> SunTrust will never send unsolicited emails asking for your personal or
> account information, such as passwords, Social Security numbers, PINs,
> credit or Check Card numbers, or other confidential information.
if you're using FF 1.5.x, then click on Help, and Report Broken
Website, or go here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/,
and let the Mozilla people give them a good thrashing
--
I bet you didn't know that "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in
the English language
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| Once upon a time *damon* wrote:
> I complained when I couldn't use their online bill paying website. They
> replied promptly with:
Well, they must have a lousy system then. Maybee the netscape version
they support is 4.xx 
My bank's list of supported browsers includes only NS 7.x and Ff 1.0.x
but in reality I have no problems with other (and newer) Mozilla based
browsers.
I have allways used Mozilla Suite since I left netscape 7 and now I'm
using SeaMonkey. Never had any problem using the bank online.
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/Arne
Proud User of SeaMonkey. Get your free copy:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
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| Canopus 2006-05-18, 7:12 am |
| damon on 18/05/2006 wrote:
>I complained when I couldn't use their online bill paying website. They
>replied promptly with:
>
>Thank you for contacting SunTrust regarding your browser compatibility
>inquiry.
>
>We apologize for any inconvenience; however, Firefox browsers are not
>supported with Bill Pay. The only Mozilla-based browser we can dedicate
>support to is netscape Navigator. Due to the frequent release schedule of
>browsers like Firefox, we are unable to commit support for these browsers.
If you think that is crazy then get this. Some time ago I was having some
connection problems and contacted my ISP NTLWorld Help Desk. They told me
that they couldn't give me any help as I was running IE 6 which they
didn't support and to get help I would have to uninstall it and go back to
IE 5. This was a few years after IE 6 had come out. So I would have had
to have uninstalled IE 6, go back to IE 5 which was far less secure just
so that they could answer a question that had nothing to do with my
browser and this came from one of the top professional ISPs!
--
Rob
http://www.flickr.com/photos/canopus_archives/
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| David Harrison 2006-05-18, 1:12 pm |
| Canopus wrote:
> damon on 18/05/2006 wrote:
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Churls. Varlets. Ronyons. Why don't they figure out a subset of
functions common to recent releases that they're prepared to support,
and stick with that? It's not like installing a few versions of Firefox
will cost them anything. Unwilling to pay for development time, more likely.
[vbcol=seagreen]
> If you think that is crazy then get this. Some time ago I was having
> some connection problems and contacted my ISP NTLWorld Help Desk. They
> told me that they couldn't give me any help as I was running IE 6 which
> they didn't support and to get help I would have to uninstall it and go
> back to IE 5. This was a few years after IE 6 had come out. So I would
> have had to have uninstalled IE 6, go back to IE 5 which was far less
> secure just so that they could answer a question that had nothing to do
> with my browser and this came from one of the top professional ISPs!
>
NTLWorld still say that they support anything at all? Wonders never
cease :-)
Way back when I was an NTL victim, I always thought their support line
existed solely to make money off the premium rate number...
David H
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| Ed Mullen 2006-05-18, 1:12 pm |
| damon wrote:
> I complained when I couldn't use their online bill paying website. They
> replied promptly with:
>
> Thank you for contacting SunTrust regarding your browser compatibility
> inquiry.
>
> We apologize for any inconvenience; however, Firefox browsers are not
> supported with Bill Pay. The only Mozilla-based browser we can dedicate
> support to is netscape Navigator. Due to the frequent release schedule
> of browsers like Firefox, we are unable to commit support for these
> browsers. For more information regarding supported browsers, you may
> wish to contact our Internet Banking Department at 800-382-3232.
Well, the important question is: What isn't working on that site? And,
what did you try to rectify it other than contacting support? Did you
try spoofing the User Agent? Make sure cookies are being accepted?
Pop-ups not blocked? Javascript turned on?
--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net
http://mozilla.edmullen.net
http://abington.edmullen.net
Everybody repeat after me ...We are all individuals.
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| Canopus 2006-05-18, 1:12 pm |
| David Harrison on 18/05/2006 wrote:
>Way back when I was an NTL victim, I always thought their support line
>existed solely to make money off the premium rate number...
I had to phone them up yesterday to make some account inquiries. Phoned
the only number I could find on their site, waited listening to crap music
for 15 minutes, went through a list of question and was told I had phoned
the wrong number and had to phone another. I pointed out that it was the
only number the site gave and she said she knew and apologised. Phoned
the other number which cost more and had to listen to crap music for
another ten minutes.
--
Rob
http://www.flickr.com/photos/canopus_archives/
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| David Harrison 2006-05-18, 1:12 pm |
| Canopus wrote:
> David Harrison on 18/05/2006 wrote:
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> I had to phone them up yesterday to make some account inquiries. Phoned
> the only number I could find on their site, waited listening to crap
> music for 15 minutes, went through a list of question and was told I had
> phoned the wrong number and had to phone another. I pointed out that it
> was the only number the site gave and she said she knew and apologised.
> Phoned the other number which cost more and had to listen to crap music
> for another ten minutes.
>
Ouch. That's pretty much as I remember it.
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| elaich 2006-05-19, 1:13 am |
| Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> wrote in news:Cd-dnX7brpf-7_HZnZ2dnUVZ_u-
dnZ2d@comcast.com:
> Well, the important question is: What isn't working on that site? And,
> what did you try to rectify it other than contacting support? Did you
> try spoofing the User Agent? Make sure cookies are being accepted?
> Pop-ups not blocked? Javascript turned on?
I've landed on a few sites where the push buttons wouldn't work in Firefox.
I had to use IE 6 to order my SBC Yahoo DSL because of this.
It's non compliant code, nothing to do with Firefox.
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| Charani 2006-05-19, 7:12 am |
| On 18 May 2006 10:16:40 GMT, Canopus wrote:
> If you think that is crazy then get this. Some time ago I was having some
> connection problems and contacted my ISP NTLWorld Help Desk. They told me
> that they couldn't give me any help as I was running IE 6 which they
> didn't support and to get help I would have to uninstall it and go back to
> IE 5. This was a few years after IE 6 had come out. So I would have had
> to have uninstalled IE 6, go back to IE 5 which was far less secure just
> so that they could answer a question that had nothing to do with my
> browser and this came from one of the top professional ISPs!
NTL's incompetence doesn't surprise me. It's the reason I dumped them
4 years ago.
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| Clever, those hanks.
Capital One doesn't like Firefox either, and tells me I
MUST use netscape or Explorer. I continued to go right on
using Firefox, and it works fine.
I paid a final small balance to Capital One, but their page
didn't show that it was transmitted. I sent an *encrypted*
email to them asking did they get my payment or did they
not. That simple. I received a 'bot reply telling me they
would answer within 48 hours. They answered sooner, about
30 some . . . they replied for my safety, they could not
reply by email concerning my account ... remember, all I
wanted was "yes" or "no" -- they said I had to telephone
them. Which I did, and my call ended up on an open line
in INDIA. Yes, India, as in INJA, as the Brits would say.
Funny thing is, I live about 500 miles from Seattle where
Capital One's office located for Western USA.
So, since my call to Inja, my Caital One credit card with
that low 8.0 interest rate was cut in tiny pieces.
Cap One, Exit stage left.
I shall go on using Firefox, and found a nice bank in
Little Rock that liked the way I pay my bills. They gave
me a credit card of 6.5%. But, nobody is perfect. Their
customer service is in -- Florida, and I don't speak
Spanish, well, not very well. Sort of like The Shrub does.
They haven't said one word about me using Firefox with
their website, and it works fine. So.
Warner
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| privacy concerned 2006-05-29, 5:00 pm |
| Which email program you used to send them encrypted email? If you use
EaSecure (see http://www.easecure.com/) then they will be able to send
secure emails back to you after they have opened your message. (They
will have a public/private keys automatically generated after opening
your message.)
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