[TriLUG] TurboTax for the web and linux

[Janyne Kizer]

I just this tried Opera 6, Netscape 6.2 and Konquerer with no luck.

I have a quick Netscape 6/Mozilla question, how can I get it to really
use only 256 colors?  I am using the "classic" skin that they recommend
for low color but it isn't actually helping on the xterms.  I do have
the following in ~/.Xresources

Netscape*ncols: 256

but it doesn't seem to be helping much.  Netscape 4.78 does not have
this color problem but it has it's own issues.  Thanks!

"David A. Cafaro" wrote:
> 
> No luck with the stock communicator, mozilla, or galeon from Redhat 7.2
> (with redhat up2date patches).  I haven't tried Netscape 6 yet (which I
> have installed on a 2.4 kernel before, I installed netscape 6.1 on a redhat
> 7.1 machine which I thought was a 2.4 based kernel righ....I'll check at
> work, if so I still have the .gz file on that machine for netscape.)
> 
> At 11:00 AM 1/22/2002, you wrote:
> >On Tuesday 22 January 2002 08:27 pm, you wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > Last year I did our taxes on TurboTax for the Web from a linux machine
> > > (debian potato, then running probably Netscape 4.0x or something like
> > > that). I tried to do so again this year and found that they've turned it
> > > off for any non-Windows/Mac browser.  Questions:
> > >
> > > - Any ideas for devious, or not-so-devious, ways to get around this?
> > > - Any ideas for convincing them to change policies?
> >
> >I checked the site out.  They are saying that a Netscape 4.06 and higher (not
> >4.6) is supported.  I have a 4.61 loaded on a RH 6.1 box.  It did not work.
> >The latest release of Netscape for Linux 2.2 is 4.78.
> >
> >What floored me is that Linux 2.4 is not supported by Netscape.  What's up
> >with that?
> >
> >Anybody got a Netscape 4.06 and up (excluding 4.6) they can click into
> >http://www.turbotax.intuit.com/welcome/perm/icomnews/welcome.htm
> >and report results? You've got to click on "Use TurboTax 1040" to complete
> >the test.  Success would be to NOT get the message about not supporting your
> >browser.
> >
> >Mike
> >
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Janyne Kizer
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