How to mask Phoenix as another browser?

[AeroSnoop]

This might be a little off-topic but...

I visit a website that I use for business-related items and I have been using the Phoenix web browser on it ever since it came out. Well the site recently made some changes where they now block certain areas of the site because they say they only support IE and Netscape. I know for a fact that Phoenix works just fine on this site and they are being pricks. Is there any way that I can tell Phoenix to fake itself as being IE or Netscape?

Thanks

AeroSnoop

 

[n0cmonkey]

The source is freely available. Other than that, I am not aware of a way. Complain to the idiots running the page, or take your business elsewhere.

 

[Buddha Bart]

I looked for ya, and couldn't find anything besides what n0c said, or using some proxy software.

Frankly, you really should take your business elsewhere. That or send a letter to the webmaster's boss exlainging how they've efectivly flat out told 15% of their customers at the door to "go home, your business isn't wanted here". Its seriously like standing at the front door of your store and just telling every 10th person to leave.

bart

 

[Nothinman]

Multizilla lets you change the useragent at runtime, not sure if it runs in Phoenix.

 

[spyordie007]

I really wish "taking your business elsewhere" would do much, but these website developers are probably saying "these features that only work in IE outweigh the 2% of the visitors using other browsers, besides they can still use IE if they want..."

That's one thing I really like about using Opera, you can swap your browser useragent at any time and just hit the refresh button, voila!

I say you write a nasty e-mail to the webmaster, make sure you post it here before you send it so we can give you tips

-Spy

 

[Doh!]

Use the User Agent switcher (you can download it here, look under extensions). YOu can choose among IE, mozilla, opera or netscape (it wil show up under tools)

 

[andrey]

Is it WellsFargo banking site by the chance?

 

[AeroSnoop]

Thanks for the tips everyone. I didn't want to say which website it was but feel I must -- It's the Great Plains division of Microsoft Business Systems. The idea of "take your business elsewhere" doesn't really work in this situation because we are a Great Plains partner and that would mean me finding a different job =) I'm not going to quit my job over this =)

AeroSnoop

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

It's a very trivial edit to your prefs.js file - found it

user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)");

 

[AeroSnoop]

Where is prefs.js? The closest I found was security-prefs.js under \defaults\pref

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: AeroSnoop
Where is prefs.js? The closest I found was security-prefs.js under \defaults\pref

should be at default/random.characters/prefs.js