With Opera 10 just released days ago, I must say you’re severely incompetent if you can’t support a modern Internet browser, but support AOL’s variation of a Web browser by name. Actually, the former is true irrespective of the latter.
Starting October 7, 2009, you will not be able to access Wachovia Online Services unless you update to a supported Internet browser. In order to protect you and your financial information, we will no longer support this version of the Internet browser you are using.
Please update your browser now for free using one of the links below, or learn more about our system requirements.
Microsoft Internet Explorer †
Firefox †
America Online †
Safari †Thank you for choosing Wachovia. We’re committed to providing you with the highest levels of online security.
For assistance in updating your browser, please call us at 800-950-2296, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
I moved all my business to Fifth Third back in January because Wachovia happens to suck anyway. I have been so glad I did thus far. It happens that 53 has far more competent management than Wachovia and did not engage in reckless lending and gamesmanship during the bubble. They also appear to have a competent IT department.
Update, October 15. Surprise! After the deadline, Wachovia has not changed their online banking in any way, shape, or form. And it still works just fine in Opera, with the appropriate browser string masking. What a bunch of tools.
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I just had to enabled masking to check my wachovia account. How moronic. Opera is more popular than the AOL browser if you consider that most of the users are masking their usage as IE and Firefox to prevent this kind of stupidity. When my bank tries to get me to change my browser… time for a new bank. Opera 10 is standards complient and loads wachovia.com as well as any of the others. They should offer a warning about upgrading, but to turn us away is ridiculous. I hope one of the thoughtless managers over at Wachovia who made this decision gets yelled at. Actually, Wachovia has never done this before so I think it’s a device of Wells Fargo.
Opera 10.5’s masking seems no longer to fool Wachovia’s website. I have to regress to 10.1 to login now. :(
I just checked and I have it masked as Firefox. It’s still working with 10.50 here. I have the masking setup for onlineservices.wachovia.com, not the other host you’re redirected to after you successfully login.