Certain pages can only be opened in Internet Explorer, how to get around it

The pages that I'm trying to open, says it can't be opened as I'm not using using IE. There must be a way around it?
I have also tried Firefox and added a plugin, "IE view" but it doesn't work.
Ideas please??

Hi
many, but not all pages can be convinced that you're running IE via the 'User Agent' feature under the Develop menu. If you don;t see Safari's Develop menu, (between Bookmarks & Window) - enable it from Safari-Preferences-Advanced-Show Develop menu in menu bar.
Bypassing the 'can't be opened as I'm not using using IE' message doesn't guarantee that the page will work properly though, since some do use IE specific code.

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== Issue
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I have another kind of problem with Firefox
== Description
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== Firefox version
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most recent
== Operating system
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