Firefox

[GPJosh]

I've been using Firefox for a while and I know there is a feature somewhere that lets it act like IE. Does anybody know a way to turn this feature on? :huh:

 

[NssOne]

EDIT: Sorry, I guess I shouldn't've really spammed this thread.

Damn, I'm such an ass sometimes.

 

[Delsabre]

Why in hell do you want it to act like IE?

I have a feeling that's what NssOne said. h34r:

Seriously, I've never heard of this feature. Do you mean the one that makes it identify as IE? I believe you can get that as a plugin-thingy.

 

[Gruntfuggly]

There is an extension called User Agent Switcher which allows you to make the browser fake it's own identity...


You can get it from here: http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#uawidget

 

[rcx21000]

I think he means that Firefox should tell the site that it is IE. Some evil ppls program their sites so they show an error if the browser isn't IE.

 

[Akuma no Houkon]

There is an extension called User Agent Switcher which allows you to make the browser fake it's own identity...


You can get it from here: http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#uawidget

As he said, User Agent Switcher, a plugin that lets your brower report itself as whatever you want it to be.

Here is more info on it and another download link.
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/useragentswitcher

 

[c0ncept]

doesn't opera have that ability built into it?

 

[NssOne]

I have a feeling that's what NssOne said. h34r:

Actually, you're wrong. And I don't care for FireFox anyways.

 

[kknd_cf]

I think he means that Firefox should tell the site that it is IE. Some evil ppls program their sites so they show an error if the browser isn't IE.

wtf that's really mean.
EDIT: lol I bet microsoft do it

 

[GPJosh]

Yeah, some sites just don't run if it's not told it's IE. (ALL of Microsoft's site have problems in Firefox due to IE's depended on security holes)

 

[Akuma no Houkon]

doesn't opera have that ability built into it?

Yes opera has that built into it, and so do some versions of mozilla. The whole concept behind firefox is to not build in a boat load of features, just let the users select the features they want via extensions.

Yeah, some sites just don't run if it's not told it's IE. (ALL of Microsoft's site have problems in Firefox due to IE's depended on security holes)

Those security holes are called activex

No really, many microsoft websites are heavily dependent on client-side activex. Things that all non IE clients have difficulties with. Thankfully a VERY VERY low percentage of websites use these (microsofts is the only one I have ran into in my many many years of web surfing) so even with the plugin to report as IE, you still cant use microsofts update page and a few other similar microsoft pages.

But for the other 99.9% of pages that say they only work with IE, so deny you access unless you have IE, are complete bull, and work perfect in other browsers like Firefox, Opera, etc... (thus the whole user agent switcher need)