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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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Of course if you used a modern browser (IE8 for you, 9 also has it) then you would have this tool built in. Under the development tools (F12) you can select to spoof a selection of browsers including FF and Chrome.

Not that I think sites should block based on user agent, Chrome's experiments page did this an age ago, as did the Safari tests... only reason it annoyed me was because actually IE9 frame for some time was beating the pants off the pair of them. Not so much now...