[dba-Tech] Linux and Firefox

Mark Breen marklbreen at gmail.com
Mon Sep 19 17:47:39 CDT 2011


Hello Jim

>You could try the Linux Chrome browser
Good idea, I should have tried that.

thanks

Mark




On 19 September 2011 14:44, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Mark:
>
> That happens more frequently than you would guess. Many of my sites will
> not
> run on IE as the clients are unwilling to pay the extra dollars for the
> extra coding necessary. It has not been until recently, that IE (IE9), has
> supported HTML5 or CSS3. Some web programmer did the reverse and built the
> site only for IE.
>
> You could try the Linux Chrome browser, Chromium and see if you have better
> luck.
>
> Jim
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Breen
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 1:28 AM
> To: Discussion concerning MS SQL Server; Discussion of Hardware and
> Software
> issues
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Linux and Firefox
>
> Hello All,
>
> Hope you do not mind me changing the subject on this discussion.
>
> Francisco mentions below that he uses Firefox on Linux.  Over the weekend,
> I
> tried to book online for Dublin Airport car park using Linux and FF.
>  However, the site informed me that they do not currently support this
> phone
> browser and to try a regular PC.
>
> Well I guess I can understand what caused that wrong message, but I was
> disappointed that I had to go upstairs to my windows machine.
>
> To gently tease the kids, I also took a printscreen of their old Windows
> desktop and set it as the desktop on the  linux installation.  Their heads
> were messed up because they could see the Windows icons, but still they
> were
> on linux :)
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 19 September 2011 00:09, Francisco Tapia <fhtapia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  Another thing you can attempt is to setup a Linux virtual machine
> > that would prevent hackers from reaching your personal data directly.
> > I really won't surf the net on Internet explorer (any version). I only
> > use Firefox with noscript and on a Linux machine helps to obfuscate as
> > much direct contact as possible...
> >
> > Sent from my mobile
> >
> >
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