Spoofing IE in Firebird

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Things that make me go "HAH!" . . . Nothing drives me crazier than surfing along very happily with Firebird and then coming across a site that doesn't display properly in Firebird (a "made for IE" design). There are a couple of blogs that I read that are virtually unreadable in Firebird. Needless to say, I haven't actually "read" them in awhile. (Interestingly, both of them use Linkware templates, but don't get me started on "designers" that don't test cross-browser ;) In any event, today I found this thread on the Firebird forums. Note particularly the 11th entry in the thread from "Mike", who offers a link, bookmarklet code and instructions on how to Spoof IE in Firebird. Using FireBird on IE only sites?? - MozillaZine Forums. I've had a go with it and the aforementioned, formerly mangled blogs now display properly in Firebird with a simple click on the bookmarklet. HAH!


P.S. If I understand correctly how this works, it doesn't "fake" IE in Firebird (like User Agent Switching), it actually IS IE, just displayed within Firebird.


Added later: I just came across this new Extension for Mozilla/Firebird - "View in IE" which adds an item to the context menu to view the page in IE. This extension will actually fire up IE browser and display the current page in that browser as opposed to the first option which will display within Firebird.

October 9, 2003 in Firefox

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