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Re: Firefox, Linux, and Banks...

That's a bad move by BMO. I guess that the if and else parts of their
algorithm have been swapped / inverted. I stopped using BMO a long time
ago, way before the BMO name came out. I'm now with Tangerine and I am
rather happy. On another note, I was the victim of a fraud of over $20,000
from a customer of BMO. They did absolutely nothing about the account that
stole the money. Tahberine and their team solved the problem and I got all
my money back.

On Sat, Dec 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM Tug Williams via linux <
linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote:

> BMO investorline updated their backend servers overnight. When I tried
> to login I got: "You're using an unsupported OS/browser version."
>
> Fear not. Linux IS still supported, and so is Firefox. But, the new BMO
> backend blocks the use of Firefox ESR versions (Extended Support Release
> / v140.5.0 on Gentoo), and requires a rapid version (which are flagged
> as unstable on Gentoo / v143, v144, or v145 - 145 works with BMO)
>
> Seems odd that a bank would require the use of an unstable version of a
> browser, or is this just Gentoo's "we've not tested it fully" definition
> of unstable?
>
> BMO do have a page on their website which states "BMO InvestorLine's
> website is best viewed on Windows with Microsoft Internet Explorer
> version 8.0 or higher, or Mozilla Firefox version 3.0 or higher."
>
> It doesn't fill me with security confidence...
>
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