Re: Slight OT: Making Firefox behave the same on FreeBSD and windows

On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 3:28 AM parv/FreeBSD
<parv.0zero9+freebsd@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 5:31 PM Chris Hill  wrote:
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>> I had the same issue with a Chase account. It seems that they object to
>> seeing "FreeBSD" in the user agent string. I used one of the many
>> plug-ins to change the string for that site, so my machine would appear
>> to be running Linux. It works well.
>
>
> Oh, come on now! Are we in the 1990's where one's HTML
> renders sanely, by design, only in a specific browser?! Fuck.

It seems to be a growing trend now that browsers can be treated as
Turing complete and give almost all the same I/O channels as a raw OS.
  It is inevitable that someone would do something to break it.   A
good number of video sites for example have even worse issues.
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>> On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
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> ...
>>
>> > One thing that *SHOULD*
>> > work on FreeBSD that doesn't.  I have 108.0.1 installed on both OS's
>
> (other OS is Windows)
>>
>> > but my online banking (chase.com) only works on the Windows version
>> > and on FreeBSD the account dashboard is so messed up it can't even
>> > display any of the data for my accounts.  Same issues for
>> > Chrome/Chromium
>
> ...
>


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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org