Re: Way to make Firefox appear to Website as IE6 ?

2009-07-15 Thread Bruce Labitt
Take a look at IE4Linux[1]. It's a script to install and configure > multiple versions of IE to run under wine. I used to use this for quick > testing on websites to check compatibility with IE6, but now I use a XP > VM. > > HTH > ~k > > [1] http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page > > _

Re: Way to make Firefox appear to Website as IE6 ?

2009-07-15 Thread John Abreau
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Tom Buskey wrote: > > Have a Windows XP Pro system, connect to it w/ rdesktop and do all your > Windows stuff thereĀ  (that's what I do for Exchange/Sharepoint/Visio/etc & > it works well). > I used to do that, but I was never satisfied with the performance. More

Re: Way to make Firefox appear to Website as IE6 ?

2009-07-15 Thread kenta
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:57 AM, wrote: > This is a somewhat desperate request... OK, not desperate, but I would > like to resolve this... > > Most of my work these days is on my linux workstation doing large scale > simulations. In addition to straining my brain molecules, I need, on > occasi

Re: Way to make Firefox appear to Website as IE6 ?

2009-07-15 Thread Tom Buskey
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Michael ODonnell < michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > YMMV with an agent switcher. If the site uses the agent to > > determine what code to feed (javascript, ActiveX) like it's supposed > > to, it won't work. If it uses the agent to say "we don't work

Re: Way to make Firefox appear to Website as IE6 ?

2009-07-15 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 10:57 -0400, bruce.lab...@autoliv.com wrote: > This is a somewhat desperate request... OK, not desperate, but I would > like to resolve this... > > Most of my work these days is on my linux workstation doing large scale > simulations. In addition to straining my brain mol

Re: Way to make Firefox appear to Website as IE6 ?

2009-07-15 Thread Michael ODonnell
> YMMV with an agent switcher. If the site uses the agent to > determine what code to feed (javascript, ActiveX) like it's supposed > to, it won't work. If it uses the agent to say "we don't work on > your browser" even though it's generic HTML, it won't work. We presume you meant that last on

Re: Way to make Firefox appear to Website as IE6 ?

2009-07-15 Thread Tom Buskey
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:38 AM, wrote: > Neil Joseph Schelly wrote on 07/15/2009 11:28:47 AM: > > > Is it enough to tell the server you're using IE? I use User Agent > Switcher > > (Firefox extension), which lets you easily change the User Agent on the > fly > > between several pre-determined

Re: Way to make Firefox appear to Website as IE6 ?

2009-07-15 Thread Michael ODonnell
I use and like the User Agent Switcher extension for Firefox but I don't think it'll help in this case. I say that because I find that Firefox on Linux can talk to my employer's Exchange server if I instruct it to ID itself truthfully, but if I tell it to lie and ID itself as Internet Exploder t

Re: Way to make Firefox appear to Website as IE6 ?

2009-07-15 Thread bruce . labitt
Neil Joseph Schelly wrote on 07/15/2009 11:28:47 AM: > Is it enough to tell the server you're using IE? I use User Agent Switcher > (Firefox extension), which lets you easily change the User Agent on the fly > between several pre-determined ones. I find that most sites that disallow > unk

Re: Way to make Firefox appear to Website as IE6 ?

2009-07-15 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
Is it enough to tell the server you're using IE? I use User Agent Switcher (Firefox extension), which lets you easily change the User Agent on the fly between several pre-determined ones. I find that most sites that disallow unknown browsers work fine when I tell them it's IE or Firefox on Win

Way to make Firefox appear to Website as IE6 ?

2009-07-15 Thread bruce . labitt
This is a somewhat desperate request... OK, not desperate, but I would like to resolve this... Most of my work these days is on my linux workstation doing large scale simulations. In addition to straining my brain molecules, I need, on occasion, to access my email. Unfortunately the interfac