Firefox Agent Switcher

[GigaShadow]

I don't know about you, but I run Firefox and often encounter websites that Demand IE 6 or above for access. While I won't Troll on about how much this Really Annoys Me, I will say that with some Google searches I found a nice plugin that resolves the issue: http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/useragentswitcher/

Mods: I was not sure where to put this, but I thought that since it would be a handy tool for many that /dev/random was a good place - move as you will.


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[davisfactor]

I ran across this a while back but it was for Firefox versions less than 1.0.

I'm glad to see they've upgraded it.

Thanks for the reminder, I'm going to play around with this on a few sites that I *have* to use for work that require IE!!!

[bwkaz]

Do they require IE because they check the user-agent string, or do they require it because they require Kerberos authentication?

Firefox, by default, won't do Kerberos authentication, but you can turn it on:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/integrated-auth.html

If they do check the user-agent string, then that extension would be useful. However, I have to say that I've never seen a site that does that at work. ;) (I use FF, while everybody else uses IE6 SP1, and routinely gets infected with the latest ActiveX exploit.)

[bsm2001]

dont work Here (https://www.davmembers.org/Membership/Wayspring/ExternalHelpFrame.aspx?/Membership/(uem00u3i4kkaa0vazhyscy24)/GetaNewBrowser.aspx)

[GigaShadow]

user-agent string. All the sites that I have encountered with this issue are .gov (I work in a gov IT shop). However, the site that really Pi**ed me off was the HR Payroll app for the firm I work for...it simply refused to allow access unless I was using IE6....the answer I got from HR regarding this was "sorry, the app is 3rd party software and we have no control over it"......uh huh! :mad:

Anyway, my Lesson Learned (again..and again...) is that there is always a way if you work hard enough to find it!! Thanks for the site...I will try that as well.


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