Eggsasperating

[j4]

Extracts from a phone conversation with egg.com's phone support...

Him: "There's definitely nothing wrong with the website."
Me: "Well, what I'm getting is: [reads out error page]"
Him: "Well, let me just have a look, we don't always get told when they're doing maintenance on the website."

[...]

Him: "What computer are you using?"
Me: "I'm using a PC, running Windows NT. I'm using NS7, but I've also tried it on IE5 and I get exactly the same results."
Him: "Ah, well, that will be the problem, old browser."
Me: [incredulous] "Netscape 7? That's hardly an old browser..."
Him: "Well, in computer terms it is."
Me: "So what browsers will the site work with?"
Him: "... Well, IE6."
Me: "You're saying it will only work in IE6."
Him: "Well, no, not only IE6... you can set IE5 up so it works in that as well..."

[...]

The upshot is: they think it may be the work firewall that's stopping me getting through; but they've activated my card for me over the phone, and I said I'd go and play with web browsers at home when I'm not paying for the cost of a phone-call at the same time.

OTOH if it does only work on IE6/Windoze that's going to be buggerall use, as at home I use either IE5/MacOS9 or Safari.

Arsing arsebadgering bollocks.

Comments

[j4.livejournal.com]

I bought Opera a while ago. It claimed it worked with MacOS9. I didn't realise that what this meant was "Well, it works, but you won't be able to print unless you have more than 128Mb RAM, and it'll crash your computer completely (requiring hard reset) if you try. Oh, and it'll crash your computer (though not so badly) if you try to have more than 2 tabs open, too."

I might be able to run it in Classic on MacOSX on the new shiny computer, but frankly I'm cross with them for lying about their spec requirements and I'm not keen to use something that's made me cross by lying to me; I'd like (if possible) to stick with Safari, which is a) shiny, and b) Actually Written For the Mac.

I could still run the free version (which worked okay, and only crashed occasionally, though it didn't seem to be able to do flash/javascript/etc. so I still had to fire up IE for that...) but the pissed-off-ness still applies. Also the ads did annoy me.

[sparrowsion]

You should be able to run Opera as OSX native -- one of the reasons (I suspect) it sucks on 9 is that it's written for X and is using compatability libraries.

I think I'd notice the adverts if I used Opera on any of my machines other than my main work one. With a 21" monitor running 1400x1050 they take up very little screen space, but 17" at 1024x768 is another matter....

[j4.livejournal.com]

But I bought MacOS 9 Opera. I don't want to have to buy MacOS X Opera as well!

BTW I do love that icon of yours. :)

[sparrowsion]

Ah, I thought it was a generic Mac licence, not tied to the OS version.

[juliet]

Ick :-( That sucks. Sorry - have only tried it on Windows & Linux, under both of which it works beautifully. Mind you, that was the free version on both. Can definitely understand you being pissed off about that.

Safari is pretty shiny, but sadly does not have mouse gestures, which is probably my favouritest thing about Opera (well, that & tabbed browsing, which of course Safari does have).

[sparrowsion]

mouse gestures

Horrible idea. Turned them off as soon as I discovered it wasn't actually a mouse fault causing random shit to happen as I tried to navigate around my browser.

[juliet]

To each their own... I find them really useful. Still, you *can* turn them off, so that's OK :-)