David E. Ross wrote:
On 10/13/2015 5:38 PM, BL wrote:
Your Browser is reporting to be this version : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT
6.1; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 SeaMonkey/2.38
Getting too old. Forgot how to make SeaMonkey act as Firefox
Thank you BL
Install the PrefBar extension from
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/prefbar/>. Edit the
User Agent menu list so that Firefox shows as
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0
When visiting a Web site that gives you such a message, select User
Agent on the PerfBar tool bar and then select the Firefox entry. Retry
the Web site.
It's been a long time since I've seen a site complain that SeaMonkey
isn't acceptable -- probably since the time that Seamonkey UA strings
were set to advertise Firefox compatibility. But I guess that there's a
few out there.
I fully concur with using PreBar. I started using that one years ago,
to get around occasional problems. In the meantime, I find it useful
for spoofing not only the browser ID, but the platform. I keep an
archive of downloadable software for troubleshooting work, and that
includes some Mac content. Some sites that offer both Windows and Mac
versions are aggressive in trying to figure out the platform by sniffing
the UA string. Thus, if I want to get a Mac download in Windows (or
Linux), I have to spoof that the platform is Mac.
The only complaint that I have about PrefBar is that the default UA
strings are *really* old. IIRC, for Firefox, the ones provided are FF 2
or FF 3 with Windows XP, so you generally have to update the data to
more current versions.
Smith
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