i believe this has already been taken care of , thanks, mike hoy Joseph Sinclair wrote: > Mike, > You will need to download the "User Agent Switcher Extension" for > Firefox > (http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/useragentswitcher/). Once > you've done that, create an alternate user agent (in the extension > options, Tools|User Agent Switcher|Options|Options) with the > following characteristics: > > Description: > Internet Explorer 6 (Windows) > > User Agent: > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 0.0.0; > .NET CLR 0.0.0) > > App Name: > Microsoft Internet Explorer > > App Version: > 4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 0.0.0; .NET > CLR 0.0.0) > > Platform: > win32 > > Vendor: > > Vendor Sub: > > > > P.S. Note, Firefox 1.0 has a serious bug in that if the user agent > string is longer than about 90 characters Firefox will crash on > startup, so make sure you allow the extension to reset the user agent > to default when Firefox Closes. > > > mhoy4@cox.net wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I need to access my boss' backoffice signon screen for his site. I >> use firefox. when i try to sign on using firefox i get this funny error: >> >> You need to use Internet Explorer version 4.0 or newer to access this >> Back Office. Other browsers are not advanced enough to properly >> handle the Back Office tools. >> >> how do I use firefox with this page? >> >> i've heard of people changing the browser somehow. >> >> tia, >> >> mike hoy >> --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss