Not exactly a fix

[redbird]

I posted a couple of hours ago (filtered) grumbling about a Website that's not working properly: I can't find certain files, and some URLs are being rewritten weirdly. The answer is to use IE; I got this from someone who, like me, prefers Firefox, but we don't control what's going on over there, and the developers apparently feel that, having said that the requirements to use this system are IE 5.5 or higher plus a login, they don't need to support any other browser.

So I have taken a deep breath and downloaded M$'s latest security fix to IE, and will try again in a little while (my system is currently taking a backup, which is an excuse to procrastinate; clearly I don't mind using the Web while taking a backup).

Comments

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

pnh turned me on to the IE Tab Extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/), which allows you to define URLs to open within Firefox using the IE rendering engine. I find this very helpful at work, since there are two sites I need to use (the company intraweb, and part of the NASD regulatory system OATS) which only accept IE.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

There's an “Open in IE” firefox extension to make dealing with this sort of crap easier… if you're on a platform that runs IE in the 1st place. :)