On 12/3/11 3:08 AM, Desiree wrote:
> "Stan" <s.c.pie...@comcast.net> wrote in message 
> news:n56dnw7-9_ls90ttnz2dnuvz_q2dn...@mozilla.org...
>> Did we ever come up with a sure way of tricking sites into thinking we are 
>> using Firefox?
>>
>> I need to switch banks and it appears they only accept the browsers on 
>> their list.
>>
>> Stan
> 
> My SeaMonkey 2.5 identifies as:
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20111121
> Nothing about Fx or SM in the string. I have this string because I use the 
> Proxomitron with Sidki's latest filters. (I don't have the Fx tag enabled in 
> SM preferences but if I enabled it, Proxo would just override it with the 
> above string).
> 
> My Fx 4.01 identifies as:
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 
> Firefox/4.0.9.9
> That version doesn't exist.
> 
> You need either User Agent Switcher extension but it only works on Fx or you 
> could install the Proxomitron to get the user agent I have for SM.
> 
> http://sidki.proxfilter.net/prox.html
> 
> Sidki's latest config:
> 
> http://prxbx.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=1687
> 
> 

I prefer using PrefBar to spoof other browsers, primarily because I
installed PrefBar for other purposes.  If I select "Real UA", PrefBar
does not override how I have set the "Advertise Firefox compatibility"
checkbox.  If I select any other UA in PrefBar's list, that checkbox is
ignored.

-- 

David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>.

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bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation.
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