Old Version of Firefox required

[Chris G]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 04:11:32PM -0400, Keith Clark wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 21:07 +0100, Chris G wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 03:47:43PM -0400, Keith Clark wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 15:43 -0400, Fred Roller wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 15:37 -0400, Keith Clark wrote:
> > > > > I am trying to access a Government of Canada site and it will not run
> > > > > some java application because it says it is compatible with Firefox
> > > > > 2.0.x and not FF 3.0.x.  Is this possible that a newer version of FF
> > > > > will not work the same as an older version?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Is there a way to report to the website that I am actually running a
> > > > > different version of FF?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Keith
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > What is the website where you are having issues?
> > > > 
> > > > fred
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > www.servicescanada.ca
> > > 
> > > I cannot give further information as the problem site can only be viewed
> > > after signing in.
> > > 
> > The site seems to work fine for me with Firefox 3.0.13
> > 
> > -- 
> > Chris Green
> > 
> > 
> The site renders just fine.  It is a java application they want to run
> after you sign in and choose one of their services.  In order for you to
> try that same thing, you must be a recipient of UIC (or EI...whatever
> they call it now).
> 
In that case I bet the issue is the Java version rather than the
Firefox version.  I've come across lots of places which require a
*specific* version of the Java run-time for something to work, bad
programming in most cases.

-- 
Chris Green