Re: Debian, FF & NavyFed
On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 14:15:57 -0500
Jack Dangler <tdldev@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/19/2017 02:05 PM, Matthew Crews wrote:
> >> -------- Original Message --------
> >> Subject: Debian, FF & NavyFed
> >> Local Time: December 18, 2017 7:10 PM
> >> UTC Time: December 19, 2017 2:10 AM
> >> From: mike.junk.46@att.net
> >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> >>
> >> I signed up with Navy Federal Credit Union online banking last
> >> week. I can login, I get the banner in color , it says getting
> >> your info. As soon they come back with and display my balance all
> >> the text turnes to grey and a twiddler pops up and it stays like
> >> that forever. NFCU's tech support will not admit to knowing who's
> >> waiting for what just we don't support Linux.
> >> Suggestions on how to fix this or how to approach it are most
> >> welcome.
> > My first suggestion is to get a new bank. If they can't be bothered
> > to help you, you shouldn't be bothered to be their customer. Make
> > sure you tell them that poor customer service is the reason why.
> >> Oh, Yeah,
> >> Linux playground 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.89-2 i686
> >> GNU/Linux I know Wheezy is old but it's old hardware, PIII, 250M
> >> memory, my video card hasn't been supported in years. Does what I
> >> want most times. FF ESR 52.3.0 (32 bit)
> > My second suggestion is upgrade your machine. 250M memory is NOT
> > enough to browse the modern web, even with FF ESR 52.3. You need a
> > minimum of 1GB ram to comfortably use the modern web, preferably
> > 2GB or more.
> >
> > My third suggestion is try different web browsers. Chromium (or
> > Google Chrome) should just work out-of-the-box even if FF does not.
> > As others have suggested, you could also try upstream FF 57. You
> > may need to install some working version of Java or (shudder)
> > Flash, even though Flash is EOL.
> >
> > My 2cp.
> >
> > -Matt
> >
> >
> FF version won't likely help.
Maybe, maybe not. My bank website suddenly stopped working with FF-ESR,
as in: opening the login page crashed the tab, and I got that stupid
Mozilla error message. Repeatedly, with or without advert and
JavaScript plugins enabled.
I tried Konqueror, which didn't crash but didn't work to login. I tried
Midori, which worked. For a while, I just used Midori for that site,
then one day, that didn't work either. Neither FF-ESR nor Konqueror
worked.
I tried FF on Win8, that was fine, so I installed upstream FF56 on
Debian and used that for banking. Unfortunately, the 'back' button
didn't work, making it unusable for most browsing, so I continued to use
FF-ESR(52) generally. Then one day, I tried FF-ESR on my bank site and
it worked, and has done for at least a month.
I haven't the slightest idea what has gone on, but I'm fairly sure
JavaScript is involved. There's no way a web page validator is going to
be able to test twenty or thirty bits of JS for correctness, and nobody
knows how to make web pages without it. More accurately, the various
web page design applications all use heaps of JS.
--
Joe
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