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How can I change the user agent in Firefox to switch to IE7?

Asked by erichw1504 (26453points) January 21st, 2010

So, at work they have blocked access to the internet with Firefox and now I have to use the awesome Internet Explorer 7 for all of my browsing. I know how to change the value of “general.useragent.extra.firefox” through about:config, but when I try to change it to IE, I still can’t access any website.

I have Firefox 3.5.6 and Internet Explorer 7 installed on my desktop. Now, would I have to use the user agent that IE7 is currently using on my computer or can I use any IE user agent? The user agent that IE7 is using right now is: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022). Do I just copy that and use it as the user agent in Firefox?

How can I make this work???

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