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[torkell]

Today's useful tool is a user-agent switcher for IE. Why is such a thing required? Because there exist websites that do user-agent sniffing and block Internet Explorer.

For some reason, this is acceptable. And yet blocking Firefox results in massive flamage.

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[torkell]

It's not built-in in IE8 unfortuantly, and I'm still on XP so no IE9 for me.

[pleaseremove.livejournal.com]

Time to move on me thinks.... Win7 is more than just pretty....

[torkell]

It'll probably happen when my XP install explodes in some spectacular fashion, or when I buy a new piece of software/hardware that outright refuses to run under XP. Incidentally, the latter is what caused me to upgrade to XP in the first place - the TV card didn't properly support Win2k.

[pleaseremove.livejournal.com]

Maybe this time it would be better to beat "it doesn't work" to the punch and upgrade on your own terms...

Given it always takes me about a week to do a full reinstall and a good day to get the core done, I would never dream of doing anything other than carefully planned upgrades.