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Workaround for Internet Explorer 7 troubles
If Microsoft does push out IE 7 during Patch Tuesday, you may find that some of your favorite sites don't work properly, or at all anymore. While testing the beta versions of IE 7, I found a number of sites that simply wouldn't come up at all, however worked perfectly under Firefox. If you run into that problem, but still would prefer using IE, consider downloading something called the User Agent String Utility version 2 from Microsoft. This has been freely available from Microsoft since the first beta versions of IE 7 were made available to testers. It's a simple utility that when run will launch an IE 7 window that will report its user agent string to web servers as IE 6. Of course, the problem may not simply that the web server is expecting a specific version of IE, but surprisingly this workaround does work in many instances. Heck, it's worth a try, right?
[Via All About Microsoft]
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Subscribe to commentsGardiner WestboundOct 10th 2006 1:21PM
This is not a very auspicious introduction. IE-7 isn't even out and people are talking about omissions and work-arounds.
dennis parrottOct 10th 2006 1:39PM
you know, it just blows my mind that people will download this junk from microsoft. if we have learned ANYTHING since the days of DOS it should be that you NEVER EVER run version 1 of anything written by microsoft. their stuff just never rolls out ready to go; it always needs a patch or ten before it can be considered usable. and to run anything they have the audacity to drop on the public as "beta" is just plain foolish...
this kind of silliness makes ubuntu linux look better and better every day... once the flash player for linux works, well, the days of running their garbage on my comuters is going to come to an end...
peter stanleyOct 11th 2006 7:39AM
You have "found a number of sites" that don't work in IE7? What are these sites? Can we have some examples?
I've been using IE7 from the day it came out and have NEVER come accross one single site that wouldn't work in IE7 (but "worked perfectly in Firefox")...
CharlesOct 25th 2006 4:22PM
IE7 final release messed my sound up, or perhaps it was the stupid updates I had to have with it.
How can this not have been discovered in testing? Or do they give a flying *BLEEP*?