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by xorcist 2307 days ago
For reddit specifically, the answer seems to be to use "old.reddit.com" instead of "www.reddit.com".

The is no general solution. Infinite scroll style web apps are implementing their own content view, in essence a web browser inside a web browser. It will never behave as users expect.

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This is a good answer that works in reddit, but if you change the user agent, it will work in almost any website with support for ie.

IE6 User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)

https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/

This can be done with Selenium too.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29916054/change-user-age...

You can set a custom UA in Firefox without an extension by going to about:config and adding the new UA as a string called `general.useragent.override`.
Yes you can, but with the addon it is easier, and you can set your custom user agents and store within, it is just for comfort.
This add-on for Firefox is helpful for that (redirects all www to old): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

I presume this is the corresponding Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

I personally prefer the interface of "i.reddit.com", but they semi-frequently let the cert expire for that one.