On 9/15/11 11:44 PM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > > Justin Wood (:Callek) <bugspam.cal...@gmail.com> 2011-09-15 17:27:41 PDT --- > >> No it is a "Core Gecko" bug, we use the >> |general.useragent.compatMode.firefox| >> preference for this. >> >> It also can't be labeled "compatible" because many(!) UA sniffing scripts >> treat >> that as suddenly meaning MSIE. We only have Firefox listed in the UA due to >> many broken UA sniffing scripts. >> >> We *STILL* have SeaMonkey in the UA for the very reason that we do not want >> to >> lie to people who care to check it properly. >> >> Given the above comments, and those by the Core Developers I'm marking this >> WONTFIX, please no more advocacy in this bug. > > I am very disappointed. However, there is still hope : how would > you react to a proposal that the user preference > > Edit / Preferences / Advanced / HTTP Networking /User Agent String / > Advertise Firefox compatibility > > default to <unchecked> ? > > Philip Taylor
My suggestion is to disable Firefox compatibility as you indicate. Then install the PrefBar extension from <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/67148/>. Setup PrefBar to do your spoofing only when necessary, using PrefBar's User Agent menulist. In my configuration, I have the User Agent menulist set with two possible spoofs: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 SeaMonkey/2.3.3, NOT Firefox/6.0.2 and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2 (not really) The first one, I update whenever I update SeaMonkey to a new version. It suffices in most cases. However, my bank's Web site does not like the presence of "SeaMonkey/2.3.3"; so I use the second one for the bank. In my bookmarks, I've inserted comments on which bookmarked Web sites require spoofing. These comments appear in the exported bookmarks.html file, which I use as my home page. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
