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<div>You could set your browser to lie about what OS (and browser)
you're using. However, this skews the results to indicate your
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<div>This kind of message is really infuriating, especially so when
you can switch your non-standard setup to bypass the warning and it
performs perfectly.</div>
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<div>--Don Ellis</div>
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<div>At 3:28 PM -0500 3/29/07, Billy Crook wrote:</div>
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Freefile. If you make less than $52k a year, you can choose any
of these companies (<a
href="http://www.irs.gov/app/freeFile/jsp/index.jsp"
>http://www.irs.gov/app/freeFile/jsp/index.jsp</a> ) and do your
federal return for free online. I used HR block online the last
two years, so I was going to again, and I got THIS:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>WTF, Why do they care what OS I run?
It's a damn web application. All they need to do is optimize for
the only real browser platform, Mozilla, and It'll work anywhere
someone has a web browser. Their inflammatory remarks have
angered me, and I want to choose some other company now. Any
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