NFN Smith wrote:
meagain wrote:
Will SeaMonkey fans ('SM lovers' didn't sound right) really have to
use a different User-Agent for each and every web sight?
- meagain
I use a user-agent override that claims to be Firefox 62. That works
well for me.
What is a user-agent override and how do I get (and use/install) it?
Unfortunately, for a growing number of web sites, Seamonkey is regarded as
dead (or at least irrelevant). There's just not enough users for the sites to
care about. It doesn't help when Seamonkey 2.53 is still based on Firefox
versions older than 57.0 -- there's a growing number of sites that are
rejecting connections Firefox versions that are 56 and older. To that end, I
know that the User Agent string for Seamonkey 2.53.2 is set to show Firefox 60.
Basically these are just numbers. What is important is features. Firefox 57
didn't just magically turn into a speed boat. Quantum was just marketing. Most
of it was already in 56. Feature wise SeaMonkey is between 57 and 61 right now
with a bunch of newer fixes for security and website compatibility in. More to
come. But you just can't compete with an organization doing nothing but meddle
with code the whole day. Fortunately affected websites which I care about are
not affected right now. Youtube and goolge services is just dross for me. They
are not free and only want my personal data or sell me things I don't want.
And for the occasional youtube video SM still works fine.
As for Google, they have their own ideas of what they want to do with their
content (especially YouTube), and you should assume that a lot of it is going
to be optimized to run in Chrome. I don't do a lot with YouTube, so I haven't
seen problems. On the other hand, I know that I've seen Frank-Rainier Grahl
note that for stuff he does with YouTube, it's faster/easier to just use
Chrome for that, rather than fighting with known limitations of Seamonkey.
See above. Nothing I care about.
Remember, there's nothing that requires you to use one browser exclusively for
everything. Although I don't like Chrome, I can certainly see a valid approach
in using Chrome for YouTube, if that's what it takes to get YouTube to do what
I want.
Correct.
In a similar way, because I do a lot of tweaking to my primary Seamonkey
profile, with strict handling on cookies, and liberal use of uBlock Origin and
NoScript, there's a number of sites (especially eCommerce) that I can't get to
behave adequately without an undue amount of wrestling. I generally assume
that those kinds of problems are predominantly related to my profile, rather
than more general problems with Seamonkey, and for that I have a Firefox
profile that's mostly untweaked, where I will use that for a one-off session
to get done what I need.
So far I don't have many problems here. Usually this can be fixed quite fast
by temporary whiltelisting of sites in NoScript and uBlock.
FRG
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