traxx Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 My bank, student loan, and countless other sites will not let me log in using any browser other than Internet Explorer, which is the only reason I keep on going back to IE. Is there any kind of extension for Firefox that will tell the site requesting the browser identification that it is Internet Explorer? Also, links that copy text directly into the clipboard....works fine in IE...text doesn't copy in Firefox. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypoxiaicon Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 Nice avatar :. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetter Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 Try the user agent switcher extension: http://chrispederick.myacen.com/work/firef...ragentswitcher/ It won't work if the page uses ActiveX or something, but it's worth a shot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurting101 Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 UA switcher: http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/morei...id=62&category= Or manually change the "general.useragent.override" value to something like "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traxx Posted July 3, 2004 Author Share Posted July 3, 2004 Negative... The website has detected that you are not currently using an Internet Explorer Browser. To eliminate the potential for errors, it is recomended that you use Internet Explorer 5.0 or above while using the website. Please close this browser and launch the website with Internet Explorer. Thank you. Any other ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetter Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 Whats the site? You could ask them very nicley to add support, but they will probably will say no, or take a year to do it :pinch: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traxx Posted July 3, 2004 Author Share Posted July 3, 2004 Whats the site?You could ask them very nicley to add support, but they will probably will say no, or take a year to do it :pinch: It's actually a bunch of sites. My work's internal website I need to access requires it, my bank's website requires it, student loan website, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaguratuS Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 Just get the user agent switcher posted above, and make sure you switch it yourself via tools-> user agent switcher -> IE6, doesn't do it automatically :) Once you do that, the site will not be able to detect that you're not using internet explorer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traxx Posted July 3, 2004 Author Share Posted July 3, 2004 Actually, the site will. Did that, and it still thinks its not IE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.will Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 i use firefox, but i believe you can do this in opera. opera is my second favorite browser :/. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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