Interviewed by CNN on 11/05/2012 18:37, Rubens told the world: > I have been able to access my bank services using Seamonkey by > installing the > "User Agent Switcher" extension and configuring that to spoof Firefox 11. > > Now, the bank is requiring customers to install a proprietary "security" > extension > developed for Firefox, but that does not install, saying it is not > compatible with Seamonkey 2.9.1. > > I have also tried to install the "checkCompatibility 1.3" extension but > it did not help.
Rubens, I'm guessing you are from Brazil like me? Well... here's the thing: those "security add-ons" apparently have binary modules, and as such they *have* to be recompiled for every new Mozilla browser version. Hacking the RDF is not enough. For instance, Itaú STILL hasn't released a Firefox 12-compatible version of their plugin, so I wasn't able to update Firefox yet (they tell me the new version should be ready by May 16, by the way... I don't know how is the situation in other banks, but it seems to be about the same, for all banks that use G-Buster security technology) Even if you hack the RDF to list Seamonkey as compatible, you still probably won't be able to install the plugin in Seamonkey 2.9.1 -- because it's the wrong Gecko version. It *might* be possible to fool it into installing on Seamonkey 2.8, or perhaps after the new version of the plugin is (finally) released. Myself, I sorta gave up on using Seamonkey for banking. It's the banks' fault for using heavy-handed, poorly-supported security solutions. What I'm doing now is this: I have a folder with Portable Firefox 11 which I use *only* for banking. That way, its out-of-date status does not impact my regular browsing. Being the Portable version, it doesn't try to steal the "default browser" setting from Seamonkey (and I can even have a regular, updated, copy of Firefox too, if I wish). It's a bother, but it's still WAY, WAY better than using Internet Explorer for banking -- besides all the reasons not to like IE (and I see you are on XP, so you can't even have the slightly-less-evil IE9), the Internet Explorer version of the G-Buster so-called "security solution" installs as a rootkit, and causes all sorts of problems. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my IBM PC-XT. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.9 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
