Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1 WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/.125 Safari/537.36Īs you guessed, I unfortunately can't change the user agent string. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1 WOW64 Trident/7.0 yie9 rv:11.0) like Gecko I forgot to add the user agents for IE and Chrome display at Whats My User Agent from my system as below. Although if it works it may tick off your IT guys. That may fool the firewall so it thinks Firefox is being used as I don't know how it could know
How-To Geek How to change your browsers user agent without installing any extensions and perhaps you can alter Internet Explorer to use a Firefox user agent. so you can see the user agent that Firefox uses. Copy and paste the user agent into notepad or something. Then go to this link Use Firefox from the machine your Visual Studio is on and navigate to Internet Explorer are used by the internal webbrowser except for homepage I guess. At least that's what the image below appears to advise. Perhaps the internal WebBrowser in Visual Studio, which Visual Studio 2012 apparently uses as well as Internet Explorer I suppose, gets its settings from Internet Explorer. What would that have to do with Internet Explorer? If a URL is forbidden then nothing should be able to connect to it. I don't know what you mean by using Wireshark to pick out a forbidden URL. Thanks for helping make community forums a great place. We are trying to better understand customer views on social support experience, so your participation in this interview project would be greatly appreciated if you have time.
You can send your idea there and people can vote.įor the load version, I get this extension tool for VS2010, I didn't install it since I also couldn't install the third party browser in my side, but if possible, you could test it in your side with the VS2010.īut for VS2012 or high versions, it seems that no extension tool for them now. The Visual Studio product team is listening to user voice there. Since the real VS2015 RTM version is not release now, if possible, you could submit this feature request: >Visual Studio 2015 (and maybe also earlier versions) appear to use IE internally to sign in to VSO, display help, download packages, etc.Īs far as I know, it would be by design, I mean that it uses the IE as the internal default browser like view help viewer document or others.
If I then paste the same URL into Chrome, it works perfectly (but not helpful since it was not initiated by VS). I paste the URL into IE, I get my organization's forbidden page. I then realized it is just IE getting blocked. I have also tried adding the proxy to the. I have the proxy setup in IE (Tools | Internet Options | Connections | LAN Settings). NOTE: Changing to an "external editor" in Tools | Options | Environment | Web Browser does not work.
Plus there is the risk of discovering a new URL too near a deadline, IT unexpectedly removing To monitor the traffic, pick out the "forbidden" URL, and have my IT add an exception for the URL. Is there any way to change VS' internal browser from IE to another browser? I'm sure that its using IE because I have used Wireshark Third party plugins do the same (probably by default).
Sign in to VSO, display help, download packages, etc. Visual Studio 2015 (and maybe also earlier versions) appear to use IE internally to
We can't access anything externally with IE except for approved exceptional situations.