You can also do an about:config in the url line of Mozilla or Firefox and add the string name "general.useragent.override" with a value of something like "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)" I believe that is what the plug-in does in a more automated fashion. One kind of fun thing is to make your user agent the google spider, and see how some sites are optimised for the search engines. I note that this method did not work with the shoebox site...they are trying really hard to keep out anything other than IE 6.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rock Roskam Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 2:06 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: RE: [TriLUG] quickbooks vs sql-ledger There is a plugin call user agent switching that tells mozilla to report itself as IE. I have used it to access some sites and allow connection. Rock R -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bp Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 2:03 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] quickbooks vs sql-ledger > You have to work *HARD* to make something that > mozilla won't show. And there are plenty of great web sites out there > on cross-browser issues. It's not *that* hard. JavaScripts document.all in IE seems to kill a lot of pages for Mozilla based browsers that I see. And scripters using those objects can easily paint themselves into an IE only corner without knowing that property ain't a blessed one. So the real question is when is someone going to write a deal-with-IE-site pluggin? We all know the MSCE paper-tigers will never get out of M$ pocket. -Barry -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
