hi all
some while ago [2000/11/09!] there was a post by Eric Krock explaining
how to fool sites (made by fools?) that restrict access to specific
browsers.
he said:
<snip>
if you want to have Moz/Netscape 6 send a different user agent string
to servers, you can manually edit prefs.js and add a line to set a
special pref called general.useragent.override.
For example, to have N6 spoof Nav4.x, add this to your prefs file:
user_pref("general.useragent.override","Mozilla/4.75 [en] (Win95; U)");
If you do this, N6 claims to be N4.75.
</snip>
full message available here
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=mozilla+user+agent+spoof&hl=en&safe=off&rnum=2&ic=1&selm=3A0AEC3F.6050002%40netscape.com
which seems clear enough.
I located the prefs.js in my home directory, and one also in /root/.mozilla/
I tried the following in both locations (wasn't sure which was default)
when I edit, add the line given above, save it and start moz, it
hasn't worked. checking the file, it seems the addition has been
overwritten - does mozilla overwrite this on startup?
I have tried this as root as as user and am stumped.
any help would be much appreciated - some sites that I *need* to look at
are foolish enough to code for, say Netscape 4.
using build: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-4GB i686; en-US;
rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607
cheers
george wright
http://fiddlesticks.com
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