In article <8d76ec03.0312011626.66d9dbef@posting.google.com >,
yosponge@yahoo.com says...

> You can be sure that if you can't access a site
> because it requires Internet Explorer, it's almost certainly a site
> you don't WANT to be visiting anyway. More likely than not, it's up to
> no good if it requires ActiveX.

Although it's certainly /safer/ to assume that, and always a first
assumption with an unknown site, it doesn't /have/ to be a dodgy site.

My online bank, very far from dodgy, will work up to a point with
Firebird, but it's designed around IE, and they won't change that. It
mostly works, but printing functions, for example, always fail.
Sometimes you have no realistic alternative.

IME anyway.

Cheers,

Roy