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Re: Firefox, Linux, and Banks...

On Sat, 6 Dec 2025 17:43:59 -0500
Tug Williams via linux <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote:

> 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)

I was bitten by this.  Easy fix:  about:config and add a preference
general.useragent.override of type "string"

Then set your user-agent to:

   Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:145.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/145.0

and InvestorLine will be happy.  I suppose you can future-proof
it by setting it to 999.0 instead of 145.0.  I did that and
it works.

> 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."

I complained about this the other day.  I encourage everyone else
who uses the platform to complain too.  If nobody complains, they
won't know they're being dumbasses.

Reagrds,

Dianne.

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