On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 19:47:50 UTC, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stan
Goodman) wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 17:46:23 UTC, Willard Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> opined:
>
> > You
> > can probably get around his witlessness by setting Mozilla to report
> > itself as a late version of Netscape.
> >
> > Stan:
> > How do I do this. I'm pretty much a novice but I'd like to try.
> > Hap
>
>
> To the best of my knowledge and memory (which somebody else will
> correct as necessary) you have to add a line to the file prefs.js,
> which is in the directory you have set as MOZILLA_HOME. If you have
> not set such a directory, it will be in the Mozilla directory -- in
> either case, several levels down, in a subdirectory with a gibberish
> name. This line has to be in alphabetical order with the other lines.
> To give your browser a *really* modern web presence, it should say:
>
> user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/7.0 [en] (OS/2; U)")
>
> Wait until someone else confirms this or corrects it.
>
I always chip in at this point to mention UserAgent bar. This allows
you to change the user agent on the fly. Get it from
uabar.mozdev.org.
--
David Forrester
davidfor at terrigal dot net dot au
http://www.os2world.com/djfos2
