On 9/3/2016 7:07 AM, Daniel wrote:
> On 3/09/2016 11:16 PM, WaltS48 wrote:
>> Daniel wrote:
>>> On 3/09/2016 4:56 AM, Arnie Goetchius wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>>> As of today, I can now log into the Chase website with the default User
>>>> Agent for Seamonkey. This is what my UA shows:
>>>>
>>>> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101
>>>> Firefox/43.0 SeaMonkey/2.40
>>>>
>>> Well that's not the default User Agent string, as the default does not
>>> mention Firefox! See mine below......
>>
>> It isn't?
>>
>> With the default Edit > Preferences > Advanced > HTTP Networking >
>> Advertise Firefox compatibility checked, mine is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux
>> x86_64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0 SeaMonkey/2.40.
>>
>> With it not checked, Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:43.0)
>> Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.40, which requires the user changing it
>> because it is checked by default.
>
> I would expect the setting to carry over from one version to another, so
> if you had the HTTP pref set in SM 2.39 (or whatever), then it would
> have carried over into 2.40
>
> But I would expect if you did a brand new install, it would be de-selected!
>
The default is to enable "Advertise Firefox compatibility". I do not
remember when that capability was added to SeaMonkey, but I do remember
unchecking the checkbox to disable it.
Even with it enabled, there are occasional problems. Some Web servers
or individual Web pages, sniff the user agent (UA) string and find
SeaMonkey at the end:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/43.0 SeaMonkey/2.40
and fail to acknowledge that the request might have come from Firefox.
For that reason, I depend more on the UA spoofing capability of the
PrefBar extension. That allows me to spoof Firefox without SeaMonkey
and also Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer, Edge, and Safari. However,
it also means that I must occasionally determine updated UA strings for
those browsers and edit PrefBar's spoofing list.
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