Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic Not Linux Friendly

Posted by VISITOR on Nov 25, 2005 12:16 AM EDT
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These retailer's online stores don't seem to be Linux/Firefox friendly

While trying to do a little holiday shopping at Old Navy's online store (http://www.oldnavy.com) I was greeted with a friendly:



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We're sorry, but we do not support the version of the browser you are using. Our site works best with the following browsers:

PC users
Internet Explorer 5.5 and above
Netscape 7 and above
Mozilla (including Firefox) 1.0 and above


Mac users
Netscape 7 and above
Mozilla (including Firefox) 1.0 and above

We're working on supporting Safari. Please check back soon.
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Old Navy is operated by Gap, Inc, which also operates Banana Republic and Gap Stores. A quick visit to both of these sites resulted in the same error message.



My setup? Mozilla Firefox 1.5 running on Linux of course.



I sent my concerns to their customer support department. You should do the same.
(Interestingly, I couldn't even get to the 'Contact Us' pages on these sites, and had to visit the corporate Gap, Inc site.)

Old Navy: custserv@oldnavy.com
Banana Republic: custserv@bananarepublic.com
Gap: custserv@gap.com

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Solution to Bananarepublic.com, GAP, Old Navy and Firefox techie2 0 1,539 Dec 27, 2005 4:23 PM
Looks like they look for a cookie cyber_rigger 0 1,007 Nov 26, 2005 9:32 PM
Looks like our Mac friends have been working on this too. smartlp 0 985 Nov 25, 2005 9:06 AM
Konqueror Linux browser conquers Old Navy website RickFromAZ 4 1,667 Nov 25, 2005 7:49 AM

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