Way to make Firefox appear to Website as IE6 ?

bruce.labitt at autoliv.com bruce.labitt at autoliv.com
Wed Jul 15 11:38:54 EDT 2009


Neil Joseph Schelly <neil at jenandneil.com> wrote on 07/15/2009 11:28:47 AM:

> Is it enough to tell the server you're using IE?  I use User Agent 
Switcher 
> (Firefox extension), which lets you easily change the User Agent on the 
fly 
> between several pre-determined ones.  I find that most sites that 
disallow 
> unknown browsers work fine when I tell them it's IE or Firefox on 
Windows, 
> instead of Iceweasel on Linux.
> 
> Or do you mean that you tried working with the application with Firefox 
and 
> Firefox couldn't run the IE-specific code?  If that's the case, I don't 
know 
> what you could do - sorry.
> -N

I will find out in a second.  I just installed User Agent Switcher. 
Doesn't work in
IE6 mode.  I'll try IE7 & 8.  No joy.

Is there an IE6 emulator?

-Bruce


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