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I was confronted one day by my wife that our new SuSE Linux computer could not access a website. My wife is an avid coupon clipper. She has found the internet to be a valuable source for coupons. One such place is Albertsons which uses Smartsource to host its web based coupons. Well what my wife saw was a webpage that posted "Our printing coupon technology is not supported on Linux".
I was confronted one day by my wife that our new SuSE Linux computer could not access a website. My wife is an avid coupon clipper. She has found the internet to be a valuable source for coupons. One such place is Albertsons which uses Smartsource to host its web based coupons. Well what my wife saw was a webpage that posted "Our printing coupon technology is not supported on Linux".
Well needless to say I am a Linux user now and I am empowered. I decided I had to fix this no matter what.
My solution may not be liked by most Linux users but it solved the problem. I had to install Internet Explorer 6. I tried Opera, Firefox, Konqueror, and even Mozilla Web Browser. I even changed Browser Identifications and still nothing worked except for good old Internet Explorer. Well IE alone didn't do the trick. I also had to execute IE with Wine. I assembled a How-To with screenshots to help.
You know, we (my family) did our own little parts to protest this problem. As it was reported that Old Navy and some other websites were not Linux or FireFox friendly, we promptly paid of the balances and cut our credit cards to them in half. We then mailed them back to the Marketing Director of each firm with a letter stating why we did so.
Holding breath waiting for reply.
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