How can I tell Firefox to report itself as Internet Explorer 6 to websites?

Question

I need to open a few internal websites under Firefox, but they tell me that Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher is required. I'd like to be able to spoof the browser info sent to the website, so that the site thinks I'm using Internet Explorer.

Any details would be much appreciated. If I can get this accomplished, I can get rid of Windows and use Linux exclusively on my laptop.

Answer 1

Use the user agent switch plugin.

However, it might not help. The "web" sites might use ActiveX, in which case they won't work even if you fool them into thinking you're using IE.

Note also that you can run IE under Wine on Linux; see second link.

Answer 2

conradj213 is totally right. I use it all the time in fact you can switch to a IE type by clicking firefox icon bottom right of screen. It will then switch. (must have the extension as he stated) If you want you can set so it goes to a IE type every time you go to that site.

Answer 3

Firefox doesn't have this option! You could try the Netscape browser though! It has this option (recognize as mozilla or ie), but this isn't guaranteed to work on any websites! Anotehr browser that "fools" the web is opera!

Answer 4

You can try using IEtabs, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/ which embeds IE in tabs of Firefox. Note this is only used to render the page as it would appear in IE. Whether it works for your purposes or not is uncertain.

Answer 5

I dont think thats possible. When you use one of the browsers, they have a set of values that are set in the session. Some programming languages, and even javascript, can access these values in the browsers session. I dont think you can just spufi it so that it sends different values. Thats more like a hackjob.