[LUNI] Newbie needs help

[Jim Harvey]

You could try the User Agent Switcher extension for Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/59/
I have not had much luck with it though.

If the site uses Active X you are probably out of luck.

Branko Kotur wrote:
> You may wish to try Opera (if you don't mind using proprietary software).  
> With older versions, you can hit F12 and a popup menu will list the various 
> browsers that Opera can pretend to be.  In the latest version, you still need 
> to hit F12, but then you need to choose Edit Site Preferences, then go to the 
> Network tab to choose which browser to identify as.  Even doing this, there 
> are still some sites that refuse to work right with a non IE browser.  
> 
> Otherwise, you'll either need to install Crossover Office and then use that to 
> install IE6, or perhaps look at VMWare/Win4Lin/Parallels.
> 
> On Wednesday 21 February 2007 1:40 pm, Janine Starykowicz wrote:
>> I have two very non-technical employees using Mandrake 10.2 with
>> Konqueror 340 (KDE340) on a 9-yr-old Dell.  They need to be able to
>> enter reports on a private website that just about requires IE 6 or
>> higher.  They can log on, but are stopped by a "next" button written in
>> javascript.  The button in question doesn't work in Mozilla/Seamonkey on
>> Windows either, I believe the site is generated by some WYSIWYG program.
>>
>> Is there anything they can use to emulate IE6?  They do have a technical
>> friend (who installed Linux for them in the first place) who can install
>> anything needed.
>>
>> I realize this is a longshot, but any advice would be appreciated.
>>
>> Janine