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Re: Browsers and OS's


From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:37:52 -0400

On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 12:17:40 PDT, Jeni Li said:
user might find confusing. I prefer Firefox hands-down for every situation
except those few obnoxious IE-only sites -- two words, AdBlock and RIP -- but

An amazing number of IE-only sites really aren't - they don't actually use
any IE-specific features in a mandatory way.

http://prefbar.mozdev.org

Adds a nice customizable toolbar that lets you toggle a lot of stuff on the fly
(turn javascript/proxies/Flash/cookies/etc on/off, lots of other stuff).  One of
the things it does is allow you to select the UA string that gets sent - it comes
with 'Real UA', Moz 1.0 Win 98, NS 4.7 Mac, NS 6.2 Linux, IE 5.0 Mac, IE 6.0 WinXP,
and Lynx - adding others is easy enough.

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