Vodafone Australia - Browser Advice

[Daniel Mons]

Install the User Agent Switcher addon for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

This will add an option within Firefox that allows you to customise how 
Firefox reports itself to web servers.  I use this very frequently to 
log on to "IE only" sites and services both on the web and within 
companies (many businesses used "web-based' ERP and finance systems that 
are IE-only, but work fine in Firefox).

This will get you past the front page of many sites that blatantly 
reject different browsers by fooling then into thinking you are running 
IE on Windows.  Best of all, it doesn't require you to use IE or any 
form of emulation/vm software.

If however the site has merely been coded poorly and doesn't work with 
Firefox, then your choices are limited.

Outside of Linux users, Mac users are also discriminated against by 
sites like these.  Safari is based on KHTML which is the core rendering 
engine for the KDE/Konqueror web browser.  Anyone who does such silly 
things is obviously not concerned with their customer's online safety by 
forcing them to use an inferior web browser plagued with security issues.

-Dan


Anthony J Brow wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Is this discrimination  against Ubuntu users?  When trying to access my Vodafone account today, I ran into problems
> where Vodafone would not accept my name (phone number) and password. All I wanted to do is access
> my account an pay the bill. When one reads the website below it is virtually saying we will
> only accept your sign in via Microsoft. Have any of you out there struck problems similar problems
> with Vodafone ? Or any other business for that matter.  I have set the cookies in Firefox so that
> Vodafone will be  accepted. I have made a report to one of the Vodafone Customer Managers, telling him
> that I would put this on the net (via the ubuntu-au lists). My system is Dapper Drake.
> 
> https://www.myvodafone.com.au/knox/browser_advice.html
> 
> rgds 
> tony
> 
>