On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:31:52 UTC, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(David Forrester) opined:
> 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.
Right. I found out about it yesterday and downloaded it. It's very
impressive -- it's the way to go.
--
Stan Goodman, Qiryat Tiv'on, Israel
Please replace "SPAM-FOILER" with "sgoodman".
200 years of European fecklessness in the face of Arab terror: Tripoli
Pirates (1814); OPEC Oil (1973); Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat
(1990 et seq.) -- but actually financing it is a 21st-century European
wrinkle.
