I've never had problems with Yahoo Mail through Firefox, or my Internet banking sites, or any others.
On the rare occasion I come across a 90's style "this site only works in IE, you're using something else" message from an idiotic website, the User Agent Switcher extension lets me pretend to be IE on XP with a couple of clicks and a page refresh, and happily use the site.
I use an extension called "MR Tech Local Install" to make other extensions work with later Firefox versions... I've only ever had one case where forcing the extension to work under a different FF version caused any problems (that was with Tab Mix Plus IIRC).
With MR Tech Local Install you can right-click extensions in the extensions dialog and select "Make Compatible" and they Just Work - very handy to try out the latest beta versions etc but still have all your favourite extensions working!
This also makes admins lazy. I know of one admin that found package management in Slackware a hassle, so he installed basically everything. He avoided installing packages later, however, all that software that can contain vulnerabilities makes a box less secure and less targeted for a single purpose.
That's not the fault of the distro though, that's the fault of the lazy admin. If you choose to bang in a nail with a sledgehammer, it's not the sledgehammer's fault that you've made a mess of everything. Slackware allows you to do things your way. It's your own judgement call as to whether your way is sane or not.
I like Slackware and Arch, I used to use Slack for everything, now I use Slackware for servers, and Arch for workstations, that combination suits me down to the ground, they're two top distros.
Arch has a lot of software ready to roll, a quick 'pacman -S <package>' away, and plenty more in the (quite active) Arch User-community Repository, and if you fancy rolling your own packages of anything, compiling and producing a package with abs (the Arch Build System) is easy enough too.
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I've never had problems with Yahoo Mail through Firefox, or my Internet banking sites, or any others.
On the rare occasion I come across a 90's style "this site only works in IE, you're using something else" message from an idiotic website, the User Agent Switcher extension lets me pretend to be IE on XP with a couple of clicks and a page refresh, and happily use the site.
I use an extension called "MR Tech Local Install" to make other extensions work with later Firefox versions... I've only ever had one case where forcing the extension to work under a different FF version caused any problems (that was with Tab Mix Plus IIRC).
With MR Tech Local Install you can right-click extensions in the extensions dialog and select "Make Compatible" and they Just Work - very handy to try out the latest beta versions etc but still have all your favourite extensions working!
That's not the fault of the distro though, that's the fault of the lazy admin. If you choose to bang in a nail with a sledgehammer, it's not the sledgehammer's fault that you've made a mess of everything. Slackware allows you to do things your way. It's your own judgement call as to whether your way is sane or not.
I like Slackware and Arch, I used to use Slack for everything, now I use Slackware for servers, and Arch for workstations, that combination suits me down to the ground, they're two top distros.
Arch has a lot of software ready to roll, a quick 'pacman -S <package>' away, and plenty more in the (quite active) Arch User-community Repository, and if you fancy rolling your own packages of anything, compiling and producing a package with abs (the Arch Build System) is easy enough too.