Post I found on Browser Identification Strings

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I was playing around with the settings for the browser identification
plugin for Mozilla Firefox (the browser formerly known as Mozilla
Firebird, formerly known as Mozilla Phoenix). You can customize the
browser identification string to be anything you want.

Apparently as long as you have a keyword of a certain browser in the
identification string, servers will treat your browser as that browser.

For example, I can create an entry "Netscape" that simply has the text
string "Netscape v7.0" in it and web pages treat my browser as Netscape.

This works with the Yahoo news videos that don't like anything but
Netscape and IE. Being the curious person that I am, I decided to see
what other stuff I could put in the text strings, and apparently that
translates to "anything I want".

My current Netscape identifier created specially for Yahoo is:
"Netscape uses the Firefox code stop blocking images from Firefox"

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