[pchelpers] Re: Firefox Question


Lindsay wrote:
> I feel that as a future practice, it would be good for Cyril and others
> to post to the list such problems with Firefox, IE or whatever.
> Discussions can take place, the 'knowledgable' can give us a clue as to
> whether it is a known bug in these programs, or whether 'we' may need to
> make a 'bug report' to the programs developers.  The fixes wont come, if
> they dont know about them.
> Secondly, it may well be the sites are blocking - partially or fully -
> non-Microsoft viewing!!   Could this be right?

Yes. Many webmasters are so out of it that they still think IE is the 
Web standard; some have never even heard of W3C. They think that 
blocking non-IE browsers makes it easy for them to maintain their site's 
functionality. Most sites whose webmasters block non-IE browsers can be 
viewed fairly or perfectly well with other 
international-standards-compliant browsers by using a so-called User 
Agent Switcher, which fools the website into thinking you are using IE. 
In Firefox, you just have to download this extension:

https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=59&os=Windows&application=firefox&version=1.0&go=Go




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