Firefox locked out of websites that demand ie

[Hootowl]

I'm not sure that there's an extension for it..yet.

I use Proxomitron, which allows me to specify the name of the browser
myself - but it might be a rather over-complex if browser reporting
is all you need.

I also use The Proxomitron-how do you do it? Do I need to download a
filter, and if so, from where and which one?

Dan

 

[me]

I also use The Proxomitron-how do you do it? Do I need to
download a filter, and if so, from where and which one?

Dan

Example:

[HTTP headers]
In = FALSE
Out = TRUE
Key = "User-Agent: Firefox IE (out)"
Match = "*"
Replace = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2)"

J

 

[Steve H]

I also use The Proxomitron-how do you do it? Do I need to
download a filter, and if so, from where and which one?

Dan

Example:

[HTTP headers]
In = FALSE
Out = TRUE
Key = "User-Agent: Firefox IE (out)"
Match = "*"
Replace = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2)"

Open up Proxomitron, select the edit button for 'Web Page filters',
Select 'Hide Browser's identity from JS' , open the filter for editing
and paste the text in quotes from the last line above into the
replacement text box.

That should sort it.

Regards,

 

[John Corliss]

Indeed, but you can manually download the files from ms instead of using
the automatic updater. this works with FF.

While this is true, to the best of my knowledge there isn't any way of
knowing *which updates your system needs* other than running MS Update
through IE.

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No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware, demoware, nagware,
PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware,
viruses or warez please.

 

[Hootowl]

I also use The Proxomitron-how do you do it? Do I need to
download a filter, and if so, from where and which one?

Dan

Example:

[HTTP headers]
In = FALSE
Out = TRUE
Key = "User-Agent: Firefox IE (out)"
Match = "*"
Replace = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2)"

Open up Proxomitron, select the edit button for 'Web Page filters',
Select 'Hide Browser's identity from JS' , open the filter for editing
and paste the text in quotes from the last line above into the
replacement text box.

That should sort it.

Ok, thanks!

 

[me]

I also use The Proxomitron-how do you do it? Do I need
to download a filter, and if so, from where and which
one?

Dan

Example:

[HTTP headers]
In = FALSE
Out = TRUE
Key = "User-Agent: Firefox IE (out)"
Match = "*"
Replace = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT
5.2)"

Open up Proxomitron, select the edit button for 'Web Page
filters', Select 'Hide Browser's identity from JS' , open
the filter for editing and paste the text in quotes from
the last line above into the replacement text box.

That should sort it.

Ok, thanks!

You could also change the Matching Expression
from
navigator.(appName|userAgent)
to
navigator.(appName|userAgent|appCodeName)

J

 

[DarkD]

Certain sites deny me access with Firefox. Does anyone know of an
extension that will identify my Firefox as ie? I believe that Opera has
this facility integrated into the code.
Margaret

There is a firefox extension that will bring up a pop-up window that allows
you to specificy the browser name to send, or select it from a list of
browsers, but I can't remember the name of it.

 

[jacaranda]

There is a firefox extension that will bring up a pop-up window that
allows you to specificy the browser name to send, or select it from a
list of browsers, but I can't remember the name of it.

It's one of the options of PrefsBar.

http://prefbar.mozdev.org/