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Sigh... some services still require IE.

https://www.frbservices.org/fedline-solutions/service-setup/...

Not even Edge is acceptable. Then they throw in Java applets to broaden the attack surface.

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I can not use the Croatian government website,[1] where one can buy a fishing licence, with anything other than IE. Despite the website insinuating that other browsers will work, if I just enable cookies (which I have!), only IE is successful.

[1] https://ribarstvo.mps.hr/default.aspx?id=5010

Shinsei bank in Japan requires IE (not edge) to use online banking. Macs aren't supported.

This seems to be the case for most banks in Japan. Also a lot of government services. Last year I ended up posting some documents to immigration because I could not get their online form to work.

Most JP banks I’ve used work fine with any browser - I use my UFJ account regularly in Safari, etc.

Shinsei is just a crap bank, and IIRC Mizuho can be a PITA depending on what you’re trying to do.

I remember, for immigration process, having to use IE to download a PDF form and install Adobe Reader to open it. Strangely enough, it also had to be opened on a desktop machine, laptops are NG.

I am able to load Shinsei in Chrome earlier this year, was this a recent change? Do you mean banking or another service?

That is not true, I am able to use Shinsei on Mac with Firefox just fine.

Shinsei corporate account or personal? Different systems

JRE, Flash and IE... what could possibly go wrong

Try to download a code signing cert from Thawte/Digicert...

sites that require iE is like 0.001%

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