I want to use the Internet Explorer user agent from the Develop tab to use a specific website. However on my version of Safari (13.0.3) none of the IE versions are shown - only Edge. I have tried searching for the user agent strings but cannot find them.
Can anyone help how to install those user agents into Safari ?
Thanks
MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14
felippemagoo wrote:
I think these user agents don’t work for Mac.
They do. User Agents are platform agnostic, they'll work anywhere. On Mac, on Pc, even on Linux.
As I said before, there are no user agents that will identify your browser as Internet Explorer on Mac because there has been no Internet Explorer on Mac for 16 years. So no user agent either.
If the website is expecting Internet Explorer, then its expecting Internet Explorer on Windows which is what these user agents would make it think you have.
This will work I have a website that only will run on ie 8-11 this following string run the website when used in the agent string.
Unfortunately, you have to do this step each time you want to use the in question website..
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0)
I guess I was able to figure this one out on how to make it work. At least from what I have experienced. Downloaded chrome for Mac, then added an ie extension.
From that ie extension's options and settings, I have chosen IE 10 Forced Standard Mode.
It worked!
There has not been an Internet Explorer version for Mac in 16 years. There is no user Agent String that would Identify a current Internet Explorer version on a Mac.
But not sure why you need that. If you just want to trick the website into thinking you are using Internet Explorer, then any current version of Internet Explorer you would be using would have to be on Windows, so those strings should work.
i take it back Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0) this works perfectly
thanks again ...
I couldn't find Safari 13 specific IE user agent string either.
If Apple don't provide one, it is going to be tough to get IE user agent string working.
Do you have clone backup with previous version of Safari installed?
This will work for the agent string: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0)
Sometimes, it is instructive to review some of the prior responses here. I gave a link to latest user agents for Internet Explorer on Nov 18 of last year. Adapt as needed.
Hi,
We have been told Edge will not work on this website - IE only. I would put a string into the other filed if I could find one for IE. I have searched the Web and find all sorts for Chrome etc but I cannot find a string to paste for IE of any version to run on Safari 13
im having the exact same problem . there was a IE extension that used to be free on chrome as well and now they want to charge u for it . I usually use the developer tab but my computer auto updated itself to 13.0.3 and not IE is gone ...
HI Da-Kang - I was wondering what it was that you found that WORKS!!
I am too trying to "use" IE and EDGE does not work - Please advise what did it for you!
Best regards
PS I see the DEFAULT string showing on my MAC under Develop/User Agent/other is:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_2) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.4 Safari/605.1.15
Is this for Internet explorer?
I have the same problem now and good thing I've stumbled in this discussion. I have tried the link you provided and used all the strings but none is working too. Not sure what needs to be done next. :-(
Define “not working”. What does the website do when using the user agent strings?
There’s also the possibility, the website you are trying to access is not using the user agent to identify the browser. It may be looking for support of a particular Javascript function, or some other mechanism of identifying the browser.
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