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On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 10:20 -0700, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Why would you use Firefox on Linux and set user-agent to IE6?  I see BS.com
> fine with FF and user-agent:
> 
> "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 Firefox/1.0.4
> (Debian package 1.0.4-2)"
> 
> In fact I see most every site fine without over-ridding user-agent, even
> turbotax.com now that they wised up.
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> --- "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> 
&gt; &gt; <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bellsouth.com/upgradebrowser.html";>http://www.bellsouth.com/upgradebrowser.html</a>
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; While trying to check DSL availability for a client using Firefox on
&gt; &gt; Linux with User agent set to IE6, I get the page in the link above.
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; In fact, I can't get anything _BUT_ that page when trying to access BS.
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; They really don't want to stay in business do they?
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