Simon Reap wrote:
> Simon Capstick wrote:
>> An alternative to IE on Linux would be Konqueror with its 'browser
>> identification' feature. It allows you to set up a fake browser
>> identification for specific websites. I use it for my banking
>> website with success. There must be a Firefox extension somewhere
>> that does the same. Of course this is no good of the site in
>> question is using IE specific features.
>>
>> Simon
>>
> User Agent Switcher [0] does this for Firefox. Used it briefly to be
> an iPhone, but also for "IE-only" sites.
>
> Simon
>
> [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
>
Of course that doesn't help when the site uses lots of ActiveX or
similar. I have several sites at work that are *really* IE only, user
agent faking etc. will just end up with a blank page rather than an
error telling me it is incompatible with my browser.
