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Ohh that's the mighty USA. I was referring to the Royal Bank of Canada.

hmmm.. I've never seen "enrol" (with one one "L") before until I clicked your link. Is that spelling common in Canada?

Ohh that's the mighty USA. I was referring to the Royal Bank of Canada.

Really? This must be some time ago. I haven't encountered any problems with most government (CRA, Statcan (census) and the like) or bank websites and I'm running Firefox on Linux and Safari on the Mac (which is a minority browser). The only exception is the Air Canada site, which seems to be IE centric.

In fact the Canada Revenue Agency website even supports Opera, among other things.
http://www.netfile.gc.ca/browser-e.html

CIBC, Royal Bank, ScotiaBank, TD Bank, PC Financial all support Safari and other minority browsers
http://www.cibc.com/ca/legal/browser-security.html
http://www.royalbank.com/online/faqindex.html
http://www.scotiabank.com/cda/content/0,1608,CID43 57_LIDen,00.html
http://www.tdcanadatrust.com/ebanking/sup-br.jsp
http://www.banking.pcfinancial.ca/a/security/whatW eDoPopup.page#more_secure_browsers

The Royal Bank of Canada, is not actually the same thing as the Bank of Canada. The name is somewhat deceptive, but it's just a bank, like Bank of America is just a bank. Non governmental is the key here...

My banking experience under linux is mostly positive. Four banks worked fine, but one was a total stinker.

Royal Bank - never had a problem under mozilla and linux or anything, for that matter. There was an unsupported time period for netscape 6, but it worked for me.

CIBC - works fine under netscape 4.x on linux but not on mozilla. Site is not actively hostile, the logon just doesn't work.

ScotiaBank - the pits. Terrible. A year or two ago, insisted on some bizarro win32 extra-security client. Left and haven't been back.

ING Direct - works fine with netscape /mozilla.

President's Choice Financial - works fine with netscape/mozilla.

Disclaimer: AC because I work for one of the above banks.

My bank uses a PIN which is a minimum of 4 digits long. I believe the maximum is 12.

C'mon, at least make it challenging! :)

The Royal Bank has a beautiful online banking system that I use in Windows, and in Linux. It even works in Mozilla, when crypto support is available. Yay Royal Bank. www.royalbank.com

I use Royal Bank and it works fine with FreeBSD, Linux and it is a Canadian bank.

I live in Canada and have used Royal Banks Royal Direct internet service for two years now and have had zero internet banking related glitches.

I do question its security though. It uses 128-bit encryption so it is reasonably safe with regards to sniffing. However you login with your client card number and a password. Your client card number appears on your bank statement, client card, ATM, and interact reciepts. It is not unthinkable that someone would use an easily guessable password for internet or phone banking.

As I understand it direct payment is not nearly as popular in the US than in Canada. There are millions of those little interact reciepts hanging around, not to mention that every store keeps a copy.

I do find that Internet banking is extremely usefull. I use it to pay all of my bills except for rent, which is down the hall. The banks like it too. I dont remember the source but it costs the bank about $1.00 for each live teller transaction compares to $0.02 for each internet transaction.