George Wright wrote:
> 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
>
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>http://groups.google.com/groups?q=mozilla+user+agent+spoof&hl=en&safe=off&rnum=2&ic=1&selm=3A0AEC3F.6050002%40netscape.com
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> 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
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> cheers
>
> george wright
>
> http://fiddlesticks.com
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Create the file user.js in the same directory as prefs.js and add the
override string. Every time you start Mozilla the user.js file will
update prefs.js
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Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion
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