Re: firefox dba IE?

On Sunday 23 January 2005 01:23 pm, Mike Hoy 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.

Web sites can ask the browser what OS and browser is being used to access the
site. This is all the "user-agent." You need to change the user-agent that
Firefox reports to the web site. The easiest way to do that with firefox is
with the "User Agent Switcher" extension.

Running Firefox, do the following:

- - Click the Tools->Extensions menu. This brings up the window showing your
installed extensions.
- - Click the link in the lower left "Get More Extensions"
- - In the way upper right, enter "User Agent Swticher" in the search box and
click Go
- - The first hit in the search list is correct. Click it.
- - There is the User Agent Switcher extension page. In the middle is the link
"Install Now" Click it.
- - Restart Firefox after the install is done.
- - Now, before you go to the site you need to fool, click Tools->User Agent
Switcher to get a menu of possible agents.
- - I'll bet you could select the first one right under Default called "Internet
Explorer 6 (Windows XP)"
- - From this point on, until you restart or select a different agent, Firefox
will respond to web sites as if it was IE 6 running on WinXP.

I'll bet that will work for you.

Alan
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