I tried MSIE6 version as well, and it worked.

Moreover, here's the script they use (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/
14413992/):
  if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("AppleWebKit") !=-1) {
    var fc = document.getElementById("flashcontent");
    fc.innerHTML = "Hello, Safari user! Unfortunately, the photoblog
is having a hard time with Safari right now, but we're working on it
as fast as we possibly can. Until we can get a fix in place, would you
mind giving Firefox a shot?";
  } else {
    // show the flash content
  }

So basically they think any WebKit browser is Safari.

On Jun 27, 7:17 pm, "Javier Godoy" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, I didn't know that.
>
> About the problem identified by khalid, I tried the MSIE6 version, but the 
> site still thinks I have Safari... so they should be performing browser 
> detection by another means. Before testing I verified in about:version that 
> the User-Agent was properly overriden.
>
> Regards
>
> Javier
>
>
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: PhistucK
>   To: [email protected]
>   Cc: Chromium-discuss
>   Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 5:29 AM
>   Subject: [chromium-discuss] Re: chrome is not safari
>
>   I mean, you can change the user agent string by adding that to the end of 
> the Chrome shortcut (right click on the Chrome icon, select Properties and 
> append to the Address or Path field) -
>   --user-agent="TYPE_THE_USER_AGENT_STRING_HERE"
>
>   This one will make the Photoblog think you have FireFox 2 -
>   --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.1.20) 
> Gecko/20081217 Firefox/2.0.0.20"
>
>   This one will make the Photoblog think you are Internet Explorer 6 -
>   --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
>
>   ☆PhistucK
>
>   On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 01:51, khalid <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     on msnbc photo blog i got this with chrome
>
>     "Hello, Safari user! Unfortunately, the photoblog is having a hard
>     time with Safari right now, but we're working on it as fast as we
>     possibly can. Until we can get a fix in place, would you mind giving
>     Firefox a shot?"
>
>    http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/06/25/1978896.aspx
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