Bug 464086

Description of problem:

The site in question is the online banking for a NY State bank.  The login process requires a userid, on a new computer it asks a verification question, then it asks for the password.  Successful entries result in viewing the bank accounts, etc.

The problem is, since updating to Firefox 3, the 2nd step doesn't work -- the bank *NEVER* recognises any PC using FF3 Linux.  I always have to provide the login id, the verification and the password.

Worse still, if I reboot the laptop into XP and use the standard FF3 distribution from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ the bank skips over the verification question -- it recognises that I've used the system to log in previously and just asks for a password.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

firefox-3.0.1-1.fc9.i386

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  See above
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Actual results:

I get asked the verification question every time.

Expected results:

I skip over the verification question every time.

Additional info:

I realize that this is probably next to impossible to work on -- I'm not about to hand over my userid/verification/password for my bank account!  :)

I'm also not entirely sure that this is part of FF that has been modified by Fedora/Redhat or if it's a secondary component or whatever.  If necessary I will post it there if it doesn't fall under a modified or secondary component.

I have cleared all cookies, cleared all permissions, set very permissive access to the profile directory and files, basically everything I could short of reading code or capturing packets.  It doesn't seem to be something simple.