This Really Grinds My Gears
Posted February 1st, 2008 by stormbringer
United Healthcare, a major insurance company in the US (and other international ventures), forbids Firefox, even as optional use. Worse, they're not bright enough to get IE7 working with their applications, it has to be IE6. In their buildings, fine, I guess, it's their equipment.
But what I do from home is MY concern. Attached is a screenshot of their (incorrect) warning. Firefox did just fine, thanks, and I completed my business.
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Another case
And some people still ask me why I avoid web-services run by Microsoft!?
- Otto - SOS
Contact?
Have you tried contacting them to let them know they need to update their site?
No point
When I offered to give them Firefox information, I also pointed out that the browsers installed on company computers were IE6, that IE7 was out and IE8 was coming. They basically slapped me down: NO to FFX even as elective use, and that their applications were not compatible with IE7. Basically a "get lost, we're smarter than you" approach. So I won't touch this aspect, either.
Ug
In reality, the person(s) that wrote it probably left years ago, nobody there is smart enough to know how to even begin fixing it, and they are too scared to touch it. Oh, and the project to replace it will be in the requirements gathering stage for the next 5 years and never actually completed as every two years in to development management will want to change the technology it is based on. Currently they are looking at "rewriting it in SharePoint"
:)
At any rate, there has GOT to be some way to get corporate types to accept Firefox. There will always be broken apps out there, but we need to get them to stop approaching Firefox users like we have the plague. Now, how to do that?
Renegade
This is where you insert a sound clip of "Eddie" from "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" doing his click and, "Bingo!" You got it.
I can be a bit of a renegade and push my luck by slipping the Portable App of FFX in the CD and using it anyway. Installed? Why, no, not me. (evil grin) IE was cutting up and putting in extra when I would go to blogspot.com.com. Yes, it duplicated the dot com and gave me an error. FFX portable to the rescue!