Fwd: Re: website pages wanting to be "saved" by Firefox ~ ~ Firefox updated!

David agora at justemail.net
Fri Feb 3 22:36:38 UTC 2012


This morning I found the Ubuntu Update Manager had new Firefox updates
ready (since my question to you), and the bank page renders normally
now!

If any of you had a role in Firefox apparently getting "fixed", thank
you very much!! 

Cheers

Dave

----- Original message -----
From: "David" <agora at justemail.net>
To: "Ubuntu" <ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:31:27 +1100
Subject: Re: website pages wanting to be "saved" by Firefox

Thanks folks - I shall ring the bank about the website.

Chromium - is it considered to be just as safe/secure (for banking) and
quickly patched etc as Firefox

and where do you go to install it in Ubuntu?

Can Firefox then remain the default browser?


Cheers

Dave


----- Original message -----
From: "Stephen Rees-Carter" <stephen at rees-carter.net>
To: "Simon Ives" <simon.ives.au at gmail.com>
Cc: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 13:51:56 +1100
Subject: Re: website pages wanting to be "saved" by Firefox

Yeah, I get this on Dendy often too. I believe it has to do with their
web server not recognising Firefox correctly and returning the wrong
data.
Dendy for example send me to their (useless) mobile website. Given the
number of version changes Firefox has had recently, it's likely that
older servers might not recognise it correctly yet.

The easiest way around it is to use Chromium - it usually works for me.

Maybe contact your bank and let them know - it could be something for
their developers to look at?

Thanks,
~Stephen

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Simon Ives <simon.ives.au at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I sometimes have this issue with Firefox and the dominos pizza website where
> it tries to display the .php rather than the rendered page. When this
> happens I use Chromium to access the site and it works fine.
>
> Im not sure if it's an issue with Firefox or the site. I do know, however,
> that when Firefox doesnt work Chromium does.
>
> Regards
>
> On Feb 2, 2012 10:53 AM, "Francis (Grizzly) Smit" <grizzly at smit.id.au>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 02/02/12 08:31, David wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> LTS 10.04: I checked for updates, which included Firefox updates. I have
>>> never had problems with a bank's website before. Last night all websites
>>> I visited (including other banks' homepages) displayed fine, but now
>>> when trying to visit
>>> www.bankmecu.com.au
>>> I am getting a dialogue box saying something like "you are trying to
>>> open the file home.html - what do you want to do?" Options are to 'open'
>>> with Firefox as default, or 'save'. Choosing 'open' just results in the
>>> file being displayed without styling because its location in the
>>> location bar is a temp folder. The same thing happens when I try to open
>>> any other page of the website by clicking on the links that Google
>>> presents for search term "mecu".
>>>
>>> All other websites open/display fine in the usual way. I have gone to a
>>> Windows computer running Firefox and the bankmecu homepage opens
>>> perfectly normally there.
>>>
>>> Given that fact, is there any point in me asking the bank about it? Does
>>> anyone have an idea what might be happening (since the Firefox update in
>>> Ubuntu), if it could be a problem with Firefox in Ubuntu?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>> It's nothing to do with ubuntu the problem is at their end, they have miss
>> configured their web server, only they can fix it.
>>
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>>
>>
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