As part of some research I wanted to play the newly free ShadowBane MMO.
I downloaded the client (hint use gamershell.com) and went to setup my account on UBI’s secure billing site.
First the site informs me that I need IE version 5 or 6 or Netscape 7.
Share a laugh and go download the User-Agent Switcher Add-On for Firefox. You will also want to import a good amount of user agent signatures from this link (linked via TechPatterns.com)
Once you are pretending to be MSIE 6 on windows XP you will notice that the form is malfunctioning (intentionally?). To get around this you can use some grease monkey trickery.
First add the GreaseMonkey Add-On to your Firefox install.
Then create a new user script for ‘https://secure.ubi.com/billing/default.aspx’. Here’s the contents of the script. You will need to end the portions below that say YOURUSERNAME and YOURPASSWORD:
f = document.forms[0]
inp = f.appendChild(document.createElement('input'))
inp.name = 'INPUT_TEXT-login'
inp.type = 'text'
inp.value = 'YOURUSERNAME'
inp.size = 32
f.appendChild(inp)
inp = f.appendChild(document.createElement('input'))
inp.name = 'INPUT_TEXT-password'
inp.type = 'text'
inp.size = 32
inp.value = 'YOURPASSWORD'
f.appendChild(inp)
When you go back to the site hit ‘next’ and you will be past the broken login screen.