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Birdman

Member

From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 121

No banking with Bon Echo

My bank - The Royal Bank of Scotland has decided only to support Firefox. I have been using Bon Echo until today to access my bank account online, but not any more. I have called their helpline and they tell me that they only support browsers that they can obtain support for. Because Bon Echo isn't the "real thing" then I cannot use it to do my online banking  :cry:  It seems that I will have to install opera of mozilla for this task.

I know there was a discussion on the subject of the trademark issue, and this is a side effect that I had not anticipated. I would be interested to hear of others experiencing similar problems.

smoon

Member

Registered: 2005-08-22

Posts: 468

Website

Re: No banking with Bon Echo

Why don't you just "spoof" your User Agent? Something like that should do the trick: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/59/

clarence

Member

From: fremantle.au

Registered: 2005-10-12

Posts: 294

Re: No banking with Bon Echo

Try going into about:config and changing
general.useragent.extra.firefox
from -"BonEcho/2.0"
to "Firefox/2.0"

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JGC

Developer

Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: No banking with Bon Echo

Besides changing the useragent in about:config, also consider switching banks. A bank that does these kinds of checks is a stupid bank. My bank checks for the mozilla string, which is the same for firefox, epiphany, galeon and the thing called Bon Echo. Back in the days when they only supported Internet Explorer, you would receive a warning about that your browser that isn't IE5.5 or higher, but they would never ever block you out from their site because your browser is unsupported.

lucke

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,019

Re: No banking with Bon Echo

My bank doesn't support Konqueror :-/

chrismortimore

Member

From: Edinburgh, UK

Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 655

Re: No banking with Bon Echo

My bank supports everything I've tried. Using links just now and it's working fine.  HBOS is the way forward.

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Birdman

Member

From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 121

Re: No banking with Bon Echo

Thanks of all of the tips. I have gone in and changed the user agent and it works a treat. Mind you, I have installed Opera, having not used it for a very long time and I must say that I am quite impressed. At least the choice is now in my hands and not the banks 

Acid7711

Member

From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2006-08-18

Posts: 300

Website

Re: No banking with Bon Echo

Why don't you just "spoof" your User Agent? Something like that should do the trick: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/59/

I'm glad you solved your problem, however I've personally used this addon and it's awesome. I used to use that to access my online classes because I was using beta versions of Firefox and they didn't support it. Works wonders and is super easy.