Comments on: Firefox Users: IE For Bills, Firefox For Everything Else

By: Sugarloafvue

Sugarloafvue — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:34:46 +0000

I use my banking organization’s website to pay very nearly all my bills online. As of the last Firefox upgrade, I could access the site and view balances, make transfers between accounts, etc., but could not access the Bill Payment page.

The issue for me was corrected by going to Firefox’s Tools / Options / Privacy tabs at the top of the page and marking the checkbox to Accept Third Party Cookies. I already have Firefox set to delete cookies when I exit the browser.

By: capricornus

capricornus — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:49:13 +0000

It’s the same everywhere, also in Belgium and the Netherlands. FF users should write angry mails to their banks and their webmasters, demanding clean html and javascripts, threatening them to close the account.

By: Jason Faulkner

Jason Faulkner — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:59:49 +0000

In general, the biggest sites I have problems with are my utilities (water + electric). Their online payment apparently uses some Javascripting which isn’t FF friendly.

I just tried to pay last week with FF and had no luck. Then used IE with no problem.

Oh well.

By: cc

cc — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:36:22 +0000

i just drop my bill in mail, never have a problem, find it takes longer to boot up, log in etc then it does to write a check.

By: Vic

Vic — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:26:36 +0000

I just use Firefox’s IE Tab whenever I get on a Firefox unfriendly website such as edmunds.com or some websites requiring forms to be filled.

By: Alan David

Alan David — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:36:54 +0000

I’ve never had that problem with any of my bill payment services – and I even use MSN Money’s BillPay service (with FireFox).

By: Jason Faulkner

Jason Faulkner — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:52:22 +0000

My mistake, I use IE View (not IE Tab). I have updated the tip to reflect that.
IE View simply opens specific URL’s you access in Firefox in IE automatically… in my case the bill sites.

By: Floyd Bufkin

Floyd Bufkin — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:46:53 +0000

I get around this by using my online banking site, which works fine in Linux and Firefox, to pay all of my bills.

By: John P. Mackay

John P. Mackay — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:46:39 +0000

I did download the IE Tab from Mozilla (Firefox) and install them. After the browser restart and I don’t see any IE Tab in top taskbar. I don’t know what I have done with this?? All I did is to install them and the browser ask me to restart then I click ” restart ” after that the browser is on again but no IE Tab.

Hope that you can help me to get the IE Tab working in Firefox browser?

Thank you,

John P. Mackay
Belleville, ON Canada eh?

By: John Mihaljevic

John Mihaljevic — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:01:42 +0000

IE Tab certainly is a very useful Firefox add-on. I an curious as to how to set FF bookmarks to automatically open in IE