You might have seen private forums which doesn’t allow users to read contents without registration . Here is method by which you can browse and read forum topics without registration.
This method actually uses a Firefox addon user agent switcher which can switch and assume different user agent profiles from Firefox itself .
Usually some forums blocks guests from accessing forum contents , but they allows search engine bots like Google. So here we pretend ourselves as search engine bots , using user agent switch Firefox addon .
Download User agent Firefox addon .And after installation,select to create another user agent from the options menu of the addon . Add following as description .
crawl-66-249-66-1.googlebot.com
In the users agent field, add the following
Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)
Now Start browsing with the new user agent .
Download user agent Firefox addon and browse forums without registration .
Ranbir says
Thanks it ll be very helpful… i ll give it a try…