[plug] CSI not compatible with Firefox?

[Kai]

Adam Davin wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:28:38 +0800
> Mark Dixon <MarkDixon at iiNet.net.au> wrote:
> 
> <snip> 
> 
>>Mark Dixon wrote:
>>
>>>Arie Hol wrote:  "Have you tried using the "User Agent Switcher" 
>>>extension available for Firefox ?"
>>>
>>>That looks like a great idea.  Sadly, the current version of that 
>>>extension does not install with the recently patched Firefox (1.0.2)
>>>so  I will have to wait till an update comes along.
> 
> 
> I was looking into using user agent switchers at one stage just to get
> past some of these "bad behaving" sites. In my travels I came across a
> site talking about statistics on "most popular / used" browsers. One of
> the things it mentioned is that in the short term this might be a good
> idea as it sometimes gets past the silly checks. However, in the long
> term, it means that the statistics for "the browser you must use" are
> increased and this then verifies the "only program for one browser"
> mentality. 

[..]

Which is why, when I install the user agent switcher, I modify the agent 
string to say "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; 
Firefox 1.0.2" and so far that's done the trick.

73
Kai