Netscape browser?

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006, Net Llama! wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Bob Hemus wrote:
>> Folks,
>> My Credit Union has just started to offer FREE banking sevices via the
>> web.  Only hang-up is my browser.  It needs IE or a Netscape.  I thought
>> firefox was basically the same thing as Netscape?  Wrong again?  I'm
>> using the Ffirefox in SuSE 10.1.
>
>Assuming that they're not referring to Netscape-4.x, then yes, netscape 
>uses the same Gecko rendering engine as firefox.  You might want to point 
>out to them (as if they'll care) that the netscape browser is dead at this 
>point.

Not to mention the security issues with IE, which should be of
concern to any financial institution.  Even CERT recommends using
``Anything but IE''.

	http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8998

Bill
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