re: Spoofing the User Agent [is a waste of time for this]
Monday, July 18, 2011 at 1:46 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Ed wrote:
|My own experiences with Firefox 2 have been very positive.
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That happens with software which has good compliance with standards.
(M$ wares are the antithesis of this--especially their previous-century junk
which was designed to PURPOSELY break compliance;
in the process, it looks like a retarded 2 year old.)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Acid3#Trident_-_Internet_Explorer
|It copes quite easily with many websites that IE6 now struggles with.
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{Feigned surprise}
|I have a large HOSTS file
|with which I block any functions that I find harmful to IE6
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I guess that's better than nothing,
but the only reason anyone would *need* to run Internet Exploder
is for a site that use ActiveX or other M$-specific badware
(wonderful sources of M$-specific infections).
I've found that I can do without sites that rely on that junk, constructed by idiots.
Mozilla-compatible browsers have a far more granular approach:
AdBlock Plus (an extension).
You get a lot more effect with a lot less effort (by using wildcards).
|I also cheat by switching off javascript
|when I encounter sites - like Amazon - that use excessive javascript.
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Again, the Mozilla approach is far more granular:
NoScript (another extension).
It can whitelist ONLY those scripts that *you* want to run.
|It's amazing what a benefit browsing without javascript is,
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Yup.
|when running IE6,
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Yuck.
It actually applies to ANY browser--and other browsers make it MUCH easier.
|and amazing how few sites actually provide any useful functions with it.
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Yup. See "whitelist", above.
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