Is it possible to change browser mode without using the IE developer tools?

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Our application runs fine in IE7 and IE8. We use the X-UA-Compatible header to force the browser to use IE7 standards document mode. This is about which rendering engine will be used afai get the picture. In IE9 however there are a bunch of things which stopped working. In IE9 the document mode is IE7 standards, but the browser mode remains IE9. When I manually change the browser mode (using the developer tools) to IE7, all is fine again.

Is there a way to programmatically force BROWSER MODE?

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maybe this will help you terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/07/27/… - QQping
No, this doesn't help me, because that article is about the same as we are doing (setting a X-UA-Compatible header). He explains how to do it using IIS, we do it from code. Setting that header only changes the browsers document mode. I'm looking for a way to change the BROWSER MODE without using the developer tools. - TweeZz
@TweeZz did you find solution, If yes can you pls share it. Thanks. - Amandeep Jiddewar
nope, this seems to be impossible :( - TweeZz

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It seems this is not possible.