Originally posted by: heat23
Is anyone having website login problems? I am using Firefox .91 and with some websites (such as sprintpcs.com), I cannot log into my account. says my username/password is invalid. But it works fine in IE. anyone else seen this behavior before?
It could be several things. First of all, trying installing the "User Agent Switcher" extension, and set it up to report back to the web site that you are actually using IE. If the site works at that point, then it was just keeping you out due to "browser discrimination".
The other possibilities, are that it had to load some sort of ActiveX control onto the client side to authenticate. Another possibility is that it is using an authentication method that is IE-proprietary. I know that Mozilla added support for NTLM authentication recently, I don't know if Firefox is using that code yet or not.
You might try downloading the entire Mozilla suite, and seeing if you can access the site with that. Also trying Opera. If it works with Opera, but not Moz or Firefox, then you might want to report it as a bug on Bugzilla.
Otherwise, you might send an e-mail to that site, asking why Mozilla or Firefox doesn't work on their site, and see what they say.
The only sites that I've not been able to use with Firefox, are MS's own "Windows Update" site, and similar. Then again, I don't do online-banking at all, it's possible that some of those sites don't work either with Firefox either, but they most likely are coded intentionally to do so, not because of bugs in Firefox.
Frankly, given the state of IE exploits these days, and that really nasty thing recently going around (that has hit banking sites too!), I would be terrified to use IE these days. (Well, not really "terrified", but it seems like a really stupid idea on the whole. Kind of like driving drunk, and hoping that you make it home safely. I would rather "drive sober" on the internet, with Mozilla/Firefox and friends.)
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