re: Spoofing the User Agent in IE6, in Firefox, and in Opera Monday, July 18, 2011 at 6:06 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ed (742 messages posted) Good to know the link to Firefox 2.0.0.20 was useful to you. My own experiences with Firefox 2 have been very positive. It copes quite easily with many websites that IE6 now struggles with. However, I cheat. I have a large HOSTS file with which I block any functions that I find harmful to IE6 - basically, anything that slows it down. I also cheat by switching off javascript when I encounter sites - like Amazon - that use excessive javascript. It's amazing what a benefit browsing without javascript is, when running IE6, and amazing how few sites actually provide any useful functions with it. Also, I no longer use web based email, but rely on POP and IMAP to handle my email locally on my machine.   Written in response to: re: Spoofing the User Agent in IE6, in Firefox, and in Opera (gerald Keene: Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 12:09 pm) Responses to this message: re: Spoofing the User Agent [is a waste of time for this] (gewg_: Monday, July 18, 2011 at 1:46 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] IE6 being phased out at Google (sekirt: Mon, Feb 1, 2010, 4:35 am) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (gewg_: Mon, Feb 1, 2010, 11:14 am) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (jack hall: Thu, Feb 4, 2010, 8:39 am) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (gewg_: Thu, Feb 4, 2010, 12:26 pm) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (sekirt: Thu, Feb 4, 2010, 5:25 pm) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (jack hall: Thu, Feb 4, 2010, 6:28 pm) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (gewg_: Fri, Feb 5, 2010, 10:43 am) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (Arminius: Sun, Feb 7, 2010, 6:31 am) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (gewg_: Sun, Feb 7, 2010, 12:09 pm) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (sekirt: Sat, Feb 6, 2010, 6:51 am) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (Arminius: Mon, Feb 8, 2010, 7:45 am) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (gewg_: Mon, Feb 8, 2010, 1:32 pm) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (Arminius: Tue, Feb 9, 2010, 4:40 am) re: IE6 being phased out at Google (gewg_: Tue, Feb 9, 2010, 9:29 pm) Spoofing the User Agent in IE6, in Firefox, and in Opera (Ed: Thu, Feb 11, 2010, 4:10 am) re: Spoofing the User Agent [won't solve the problem] (gewg_: Thu, Feb 11, 2010, 10:04 am) re: Spoofing the User Agent [won't solve the problem] (douglas: Sun, Feb 21, 2010, 1:38 am) re: Spoofing the User Agent [won't solve the problem] (gewg_: Sun, Feb 21, 2010, 11:32 am) re: Spoofing the User Agent [won't solve the problem] MORE DETAILS (gewg_: Tue, Jul 5, 2011, 7:31 pm) Requirements for using HTML5 websites (gewg_: Thu, Aug 11, 2011, 12:05 pm) re: Requirements for using HTML5 websites (Arminius: Thu, Aug 11, 2011, 4:17 pm) re: Requirements for using HTML5 websites (gewg_: Thu, Aug 11, 2011, 5:26 pm) re: Requirements for using HTML5 websites (Arminius: Thu, Aug 11, 2011, 6:15 pm) re: Requirements for using HTML5 websites (gewg_: Thu, Aug 11, 2011, 11:21 pm) re: Requirements for using HTML5 websites (Arminius: Fri, Aug 12, 2011, 6:13 am) re: Requirements for using HTML5 websites (gewg_: Fri, Aug 12, 2011, 2:37 pm) re: Spoofing the User Agent in IE6, in Firefox, and in Opera (gerald Keene: Thu, May 5, 2011, 12:09 pm) re: Spoofing the User Agent in IE6, in Firefox, and in Opera (Ed: Mon, Jul 18, 2011, 6:06 am) re: Spoofing the User Agent [is a waste of time for this] (gewg_: Mon, Jul 18, 2011, 1:46 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum