My wife's mobile phone account is with Vodafone. They allow a certain
number of free texts on every month's bill, and these can be sent from
their website.
Only, it's manky slow. As in, when that web page is being shown, there's
a 10 second delay between trying to scroll down with the mouse and
anything actually happening. And you need a good memory to type in the
text message.
Things speed up if I disable Javascript. Except, if Javascript is
disabled, the texts don't get sent.
We're using Mandriva 2008 Free and Firefox.
Anyone got similar experiences? I can't believe it's that bad on all
their customers' machines -- or at least, on their web developers'
machines -- and I'm guessing that most of those are on another operating
system. I'm wondering whether this is a problem under Linux in general,
or just my machine.
My own phone account is with O2, and I don't have that problem. So it's
something that Vodafone are doing with Javascript. But how to protect
myself from it?
Frank
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