272435 - Disguise as IE

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kye Monroe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I actually have a build request on a fature that is in the browser Opera 7+.  It
has the ability to disguise itself as IE so when you open pages that "require"
or only funtion with IE it will still work.  I HATE IE in so many ways, and yet
there  always seems to be these pages developed only for it.  Can this be
something changes?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the webpage, doesnt load.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing, never loads.  If opened in IE it does though.  Developer has stated
that the page is for IE and they have no intention of making it an open source
compatable browser.

Comment 1

[Alessio]

> I actually have a build request on a fature that is in the browser Opera 7+.  It
> has the ability to disguise itself as IE so when you open pages that "require"
> or only funtion with IE it will still work.  I HATE IE in so many ways, and yet
> there  always seems to be these pages developed only for it.  Can this be
> something changes?

this feature is already available as an extension, take a look here:
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/useragentswitcher

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

why should this be build config ?

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

there is an extension for this and the "normal" user doesn't need this.

marking wontfix

Comment 4

[Mike Kowalski]

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