1 January 2012

TaxOnWeb, OSX and Chrome

- Not working at present

I believe that the Belgian government website went heavily with Microsoft for its electronic ID cards, and that means Belgian citizens and residents that are not Microsoft slaves will have a tougher time using eGovernment.  However, TaxOnWeb can sometimes be used.

The trick (from here) is to start Chrome with a flag:

/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --use-system-ssl

Then when it appears to ask for the password to the keyring, it actually wants the PIN-code for the eID card.

Regrettably, since first writing, TaxOnWeb now does a userAgent check and blocks Chrome.  Although I have found an extension to hep, this won't install today on my beta version of Chrome (16)

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