On 11/11/11 18:31, Jim wrote:
WLS (CompTIA A+ Certified - Retired) wrote:
Jim wrote:
Houston -- I have a problem --
I am a U.S. government employee. To view our pay statements and make
changes, we
have to use the site www.employeeexpress.gov. I have SM and IE 9.0 on
my PC.
Employee Express will work with neither of these (sigh). It requires
Firefox or
IE 7.0 or 8.0.
Can I install FF, just for the purpose of accessing this site, and
still keep
SM? If so, how do I do that? I can't go back to IE 8.0. I wish I never
put IE
9.0 on my PC -- I hate it.
TIA --
Do you have Advertise Firefox compatibility checked in your Advanced >
HTTP Networking preferences? If not check it, and see if that helps.
You can install Firefox, but shouldn't need to. Does the site load, or
tell you your browser is not supported?
I can load the site with SeaMonkey 2.5. Not a government employee so
can't try logging in.
I tried it, and it works now. They must have changed the site recently
(or maybe SM added that compatibility check box on a recent update.)
When I used to go to the site, it had a big red X on the browser, saying
I needed FF or IE & or 8. Guess I don't have a problem. Thanks for a
quick response.
That "Advertise Firefox compatibility" setting was added just because
there are too many sites which check for Firefox "the wrong way", by
looking for the string "Firefox/" in the user-agent string, rather than
for "Gecko/" or, better, by checking whether the needed JavaScript
methods are defined.
Now that you checked that box (which is the factory default), your
browser advertises itself to the site as "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1;
WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110928 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1" which is
the factory default value for a SeaMonkey 2.4.1 32-bit executable
running on 64-bit Windows; but most of those badly written sites will
accept it as Firefox 7.0.1, and indeed Firefox 7.0.1 and SeaMonkey 2.4.1
share the same version of the Gecko rendering engine, so anything that
the one can do, the other can do the same way.
Best regards,
Tony.
--
If God had not given us sticky tape, it would have been necessary to
invent it.
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