OT: house.co.uk and firefox

[Mr Fizzion]

Has anyone else using firefox managed to use house.co.uk to pay a gas bill?

Mr F.

[Rob Morley]

page is currently unavailable. Please try again later.

if problem persists please contact customer services on 0845 600 5001

[soup]

Using FF I got through to that site but as I point blank refuse to do any monetary transaction on the net didn't pay any bill so don't know if it will accept a transaction on FF. Some financial sites will not work with FF a lot of people keep I.E. handy for just such an occasion have heard it more with online banking than paying bills though.

[Weatherlawyer]

Have you tried Netscape?

It has both IE and Gecko engines built in. Suspect sites get the FF treatment, certificated sites go through the IE engine. You nget first choice though.

One benefit is that it has all the regular security patches that Mozilla get.

[John Laird]

I know I can't log into Scottish Power's on-line system with Firefox - only IE works. There are one or two other sites that "misbehave" with it, too.

[Bob Eager]

I found that too inconvenient, so I left Scottish Power! They were by no means the cheapest, anyway.

[Rob Morley]

The page doesn't render properly, so it makes it rather difficult to enter details in the form - it's better using Opera. Have you told them about it? I managed to enter the details and tried to make a payment but my account is in credit so it wouldn't let me.

[John Laird]

In my case, I thought it was because I'd forgotten my password and got CS to reset my accounts details (they used to have some odd requirement that a password had to contain one digit somewhere, or similar). I'm on some capped deal which still seems pretty competitive to me, what with gas prices in particular going up and up at the moment. I always try to factor in an amount for possible hassle when considering changing suppliers of anything.

[Chris Hodges]

It _can use_ the ie engine that is "part of" windows - if you're using it on windows. Firefox has an ieview plugin which will open a given page in ie. However firefox/mozilla can run on other operating systems, weher this won't work (I've never tried ie under WINE and have no intention of bothering). Also I'm happy to do online banking, but not using ie!