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Yes, but the Bank of Montreal, their official name notwithstanding (they prefer to be called "BMO" nowadays), is a National Institution (one of the "Big 5" Canadian banks). This particular ATM was apparently in Winnipeg, MB which is almost 1500 miles from Montreal, QC...

-AC

Did "Bank of Montreal" not clue you in that this wasn't in the USA?

Why should it have? There are hundreds of BMO branches in the USA.

BMO is a financial institution.

In Canada, the MasterCard version is called PayPass and I do have one of these PayPass-enabled cards and haven't had any problems with PayPass specifically (although my MasterCard was compromised just before Christmas but the bank reversed all the fraudulent transactions)

Yes, this is in effect in Canada too. I have a BMO Bank of Montreal MasterCard and BMO Bank of Montreal debit card, and both are chip and PIN enabled. There's even a website with a bunch of information and FAQs on chip and PIN: http://www4.bmo.com/chip/questions.html Full disclosure: I am a Bank of Montreal employee, but from my understanding, all major Canadian banks will be following suit if they haven't started already.

Indeed. In a brokerage or (God forbid) a bank, you're lucky if the IT people have PCs that can run something later than Windows NT.

I'm curious as to why you don't seem to like banks... I only started there 3 months ago and am loving it significantly more than the hell-hole school board I used to work for. I've noticed that the bank cares a lot more about its employees in 3 months than the school board ever did (over 5 years!).

Maybe you should contact your bank and suggest they allow Firefox. My bank hasn't had a problem with it ever. You could also try the UserAgent Switcher extension to try and fool the bank. Can't remember the URL, but it's by Chris Pederick.

And as Firefox's share grows, I'm sure that sites such as the one you mention will change. But in the meantime have you tried contacting the webmaster of the site? Many times they don't even know there's a problem in another web browser.

They limit you to a 7 CHARACTER PASSSWORD!

Bank of Montreal is worse -- all passwords are between 4 and 6 characters. In fact, their FAQ lists 6 characters as a "good" password. Scary.

They limit you to a 7 CHARACTER PASSSWORD!

Bank of Montreal is worse -- all passwords are between 4 and 6 characters. In fact, their FAQ lists 6 characters as a "good" password. Scary.

Is this browser compatible with banking sites?

Depends completely on your bank. Mine works just fine -- but it's up to your bank to either create a standards-based solution, or one that is locked into IE.

Is it really faster than Safari in Mac OS X?

I'm going to disagree with the crowd a bit and say "yes", but with a caveat.

On my PowerBook G4 12" (Rev. C), FireFox v1.0 feels faster than Safari (in 10.3.6) -- but this could be in part because of the ad-blocking features in FireFox which don't exist in Safari (also the primary reason why FireFox is my browser-of-choice on OS X, over both Safari and Camino), which puts Safari at a disadvantage (as on many sites, it's downloading and rendering more data than FireFox is on the same sites).

HTH!

Yaz.

I think you'll find most banks only support Internet Explorer and Netscape, nothing else. My bank, Bank of Montreal, claims to support Netscape, but it doesn't always work, I have boot into Windows to use IE5.5 to do my banking.

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