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for firefox, you dowload an extension called user agent spoofer (or words to that effect) and then choose what you want to spoof it to from the list (or add your own to the list and then choose that). By way of a bit of explanation as to what the heck I’m talking about, your browser tells the server what it is (e.g. Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 running on windows 2000). By spoofing the user agent, you just get your browser to tell the server a lie (e.g. that it is Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 running on Windows XP). In certain situations, this is useful. For example at work the firewall is configured in such a way as to only allow IE to access the internet, but I hate using IE and so I get firefox to tell the firewall that it is really Internet Explorer and then it works.
The problem with the EH website is that the graphical site thinks firefox can’t cope with graphics, and so sends it to the “accessability” site. However the accessability site seems to use content from the graphical site in certain circustances (typically property information pages it seems), and so sends you there. However the graphical site still thinks firefox can’t handle graphics and so sends you back to the accessability site, which in turn sends you back to the graphical site and so on ad infinitum. I reported this bug to the EH web team in about March 2004, and again about March this year. Istr Pam saying she reported it as well. Nothing has changed however. 
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