Way to make Firefox appear to Website as IE6 ?

[H. Kurth Bemis]

On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 10:57 -0400, bruce.labitt at autoliv.com wrote:
> This is a somewhat desperate request...  OK, not desperate, but I would 
> like to resolve this...
> 
> Most of my work these days is on my linux workstation doing large scale 
> simulations.  In addition to straining my brain molecules, I need, on 
> occasion, to access my email.  Unfortunately the interface is IE centric. 
> (Lotus Notes - please no groans...)  I used to be able to connect to LN 
> thru a webmail interface.  Sometime after June 26th (I was on vacation at 
> the time) the webmail interface no longer works on FireFox running under 
> Ubuntu 8.10.
> 
> When I enquired, I was told that Webmail only supports IE.  My local IT 
> guy, who is quite sympathetic, but powerless against the IT Overlords, 
> tested the Firefox interface from Windows and found it "inoperable". (Just 
> like on the linux side...)
> 
> So does anyone have a solution or suggestion I could try?  Is there a 
> module/plugin/addon or whatever that makes FF behave like IE6 to an IE 
> centric application or website?  Searching on addons.mozilla.org wasn't 
> fruitful for me.  Maybe someone has better search-fu ?
> 
> A different browser is not out of the question, although not preferred. 
> IIRC didn't Konqueror have an IE mode?
> 
> Bruce Labitt
> Autoliv Electronics
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Take a look at IE4Linux[1].  It's a script to install and configure
multiple versions of IE to run under wine.  I used to use this for quick
testing on websites to check compatibility with IE6, but now I use a XP
VM.

HTH
~k

[1] http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page