alan,
thanks a lot for the detailed instructions. i managed to get past the
sign on process.
but unfortunately NONE of the hyperlinks are present so I can get around
to the various pages I need to update.
So I'll just have to boot into windoze.
later,
mike hoy
Alan Dayley wrote:
>>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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