Re: Debian, FF & NavyFed
On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 18:10:28 -0800 Mike McClain <mike.junk.46@att.net>
wrote:
> 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.
>
> What I've done:
> Having added Dan Pollock's hosts to my /etc/hosts recently I went
> back to the bare bones version that only mentions my local hardware.
> My /etc/hosts.deny says:
> ALL: PARANOID
> ALL: ALL: rfc931: spawn(netstat -tup | mail -s "%d DENIED\: %c" root)
> & as it has for years.
> I've a small homegrown firewall that's worked for years and allows
> me to login to other credit unions and several stock brokers.
> I've saved and studied the page source and nothing sticks out
> except that it's written for IE and has several *.css at the top I
> can't see and lots of *.js scripts called.
> Over the years I've programmed in Fortran, Basic, Forth, Awk, 'C',
> Dos, Unix and Linux scripting and Perl. My html doesn't extend much
> further than anchors, lists and list items and <pre> </pre> and I've
> never picked up Java or js.
>
> As said above all pointers welcome.
>
> 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)
Here's part or most of the problem: Not old hardware, but old
software. I run Wheezy (64-bit) on a box I built 10 years ago, but
upgraded some over the years, and I encounter the same problems. I've
discovered that the problem sites are just looking for something that's
not available under Wheezy resulting in a continuous busy pointer. It
could be a Windows file, dll, etc that's being looked for or a newer
version of a Linux file, library, etc. In most cases, if I run Stretch
or Windows XP in VirtualBox, everything works fine. So, it's not the
hardware.
I fear the only solution is upgrading your OS, etc., etc., but that's
probably not a viable option with your hardware.
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