Re: Modifying useragent string

[G. Ross]

G. Ross wrote:

I used to know how to change it, but having a senior moment.

Thanks for all the responses.  I don't remember it as being all that 
difficult in the distant past.  I really don't want to import this and 
that or install more add-ons.  I wouldn't know an .xml file if I met 
one. I'm getting too old to fiddle around for a simple problem.
So I took the easy way out--I used (gasp!) internet exploder and made 
the weather.com site the home page.  It pops right up without waiting 
for all the files to load.  That's all I use it for.


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Re: Modifying useragent string

[EE]

David E. Ross wrote:

On 5/4/2016 10:52 AM, EE wrote:

Desiree wrote:

On 5/3/2016 1:22 PM, G. Ross wrote:

I used to know how to change it, but having a senior moment.


The extension User Agent Switcher works well.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/user-agent-switcher/

I've used it for many years on Fx and recently added it to SeaMonkey.

You will need to import the user agent list from
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about304.html.


Why do the people who make these lists of user-agents not fill in all
the blanks other than vendor?  If the appcodename, appname, appversion,
and platform are left blank, it becomes obvious that the user-agent is
faked.



PrefBar only needs a user-defined name for the UA string plus the UA
string itself.  The import file is NOT .xml, which is what User Agent
Switcher uses.

I hand-edit the UA menulist from a log of visits to my Web site, which
contains the UAs of visiting browsers.  I do this about once every 1-2
months in my primary SeaMonkey profile.  Then I export the menulist and
import it to my other profiles and to the SeaMonkey profiles on my
wife's PC, each time deleting the existing menulist before importing the
new one.

What I do is take the .xml file with the fakes, import it into 
User-agent Switcher, then use the extension itself to fill in the blanks 
for those agents that I might possibly want to use.  After that I back 
up the list of user-agents so that I do not have to do that over again 
if something happens to my profile or the extension.


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Re: Modifying useragent string

[David E. Ross]

On 5/4/2016 10:52 AM, EE wrote:
> Desiree wrote:
>> On 5/3/2016 1:22 PM, G. Ross wrote:
>>> I used to know how to change it, but having a senior moment.
>>>
>> The extension User Agent Switcher works well.
>>
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/user-agent-switcher/
>>
>> I've used it for many years on Fx and recently added it to SeaMonkey.
>>
>> You will need to import the user agent list from
>> http://techpatterns.com/forums/about304.html.
> 
> Why do the people who make these lists of user-agents not fill in all 
> the blanks other than vendor?  If the appcodename, appname, appversion, 
> and platform are left blank, it becomes obvious that the user-agent is 
> faked.
> 

PrefBar only needs a user-defined name for the UA string plus the UA
string itself.  The import file is NOT .xml, which is what User Agent
Switcher uses.

I hand-edit the UA menulist from a log of visits to my Web site, which
contains the UAs of visiting browsers.  I do this about once every 1-2
months in my primary SeaMonkey profile.  Then I export the menulist and
import it to my other profiles and to the SeaMonkey profiles on my
wife's PC, each time deleting the existing menulist before importing the
new one.

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Re: Modifying useragent string

[EE]

Desiree wrote:

On 5/3/2016 1:22 PM, G. Ross wrote:

I used to know how to change it, but having a senior moment.


The extension User Agent Switcher works well.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/user-agent-switcher/

I've used it for many years on Fx and recently added it to SeaMonkey.

You will need to import the user agent list from
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about304.html.


Why do the people who make these lists of user-agents not fill in all 
the blanks other than vendor?  If the appcodename, appname, appversion, 
and platform are left blank, it becomes obvious that the user-agent is 
faked.


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Re: Modifying useragent string

[David E. Ross]

On 5/4/2016 10:09 AM, NFN Smith wrote:
> David E. Ross wrote:
>> On 5/3/2016 4:22 PM, G. Ross wrote:
>>> I used to know how to change it, but having a senior moment.
>>>
>>
>> I use the PrefBar extension.  It contains a menulist called User Agent
>> that allows you to change the UA string.  If you forget that you changed
>> the UA string, it reverts back to your default, when you either launch
>> or terminate SeaMonkey (I do not remember which, but the effect is the
>> same).
>>
>> The data in the User Agent menulist requires updating now and then as
>> other browser developers release new browser versions.  This requires
>> completely deleting the User Agent menulist and then importing the new
>> data.  I can send you my current data, but I am unlikely to keep
>> providing future updates.  If you want a copy of my current data,
>> indicate that in this thread; I will then upload the file to my Web
>> server and report here the URI.
>>
> 
> I concur with PrefBar, although the default strings offered are really old.
> 
> You don't necessarily have to delete the existing list, but you do have 
> to edit, to show the spoofing that you want.  In my experience, I 
> generally update my strings to more current version numbers, about twice 
> a year.
> 
> In my case, I do happen to have Firefox installed, and when I want to 
> update the PrefBar spoofing in Seamonkey, it's easy enough to 
> copy/paste, based on a live installation.
> 
> For other spoofings I do (and I have several), a useful source of 
> strings can be found at: 
> http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/useragentstring.php.
> 
> Smith
> 

To edit the menulist, you are correct:  It does not have to be deleted.

To IMPORT a new version of the menulist, however, you must first delete
the existing menulist.  While you can import the new version of a
checkbox or button over an existing one, you cannot import a new version
of a menulist over an old one.  Quite some time ago, this was confirmed
to me in an E-mail from Manuel Reimer, the developer of PrefBar.

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Re: Modifying useragent string

[NFN Smith]

David E. Ross wrote:

On 5/3/2016 4:22 PM, G. Ross wrote:

I used to know how to change it, but having a senior moment.



I use the PrefBar extension.  It contains a menulist called User Agent
that allows you to change the UA string.  If you forget that you changed
the UA string, it reverts back to your default, when you either launch
or terminate SeaMonkey (I do not remember which, but the effect is the
same).

The data in the User Agent menulist requires updating now and then as
other browser developers release new browser versions.  This requires
completely deleting the User Agent menulist and then importing the new
data.  I can send you my current data, but I am unlikely to keep
providing future updates.  If you want a copy of my current data,
indicate that in this thread; I will then upload the file to my Web
server and report here the URI.



I concur with PrefBar, although the default strings offered are really old.

You don't necessarily have to delete the existing list, but you do have 
to edit, to show the spoofing that you want.  In my experience, I 
generally update my strings to more current version numbers, about twice 
a year.


In my case, I do happen to have Firefox installed, and when I want to 
update the PrefBar spoofing in Seamonkey, it's easy enough to 
copy/paste, based on a live installation.


For other spoofings I do (and I have several), a useful source of 
strings can be found at: 
http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/useragentstring.php.


Smith
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Re: Modifying useragent string

[Desiree]

On 5/3/2016 1:22 PM, G. Ross wrote:

I used to know how to change it, but having a senior moment.


The extension User Agent Switcher works well.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/user-agent-switcher/

I've used it for many years on Fx and recently added it to SeaMonkey.

You will need to import the user agent list from 
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about304.html.

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Re: Modifying useragent string

[Paul in Houston, TX]

G. Ross wrote:

I used to know how to change it, but having a senior moment.


About:config
general.useragent.override
fill in the blanks
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Re: Modifying useragent string

[Felix Miata]

David E. Ross composed on 2016-05-03 19:50 (UTC-0400):

On 5/3/2016 4:22 PM, G. Ross wrote:

I used to know how to change it, but having a senior moment.



I use the PrefBar extension.  It contains a menulist called User Agent
that allows you to change the UA string.  If you forget that you changed
the UA string, it reverts back to your default, when you either launch
or terminate SeaMonkey (I do not remember which, but the effect is the
same).

The data in the User Agent menulist requires updating now and then as
other browser developers release new browser versions.  This requires
completely deleting the User Agent menulist and then importing the new
data.  I can send you my current data, but I am unlikely to keep
providing future updates.  If you want a copy of my current data,
indicate that in this thread; I will then upload the file to my Web
server and report here the URI.


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Re: Modifying useragent string

[David E. Ross]

On 5/3/2016 4:22 PM, G. Ross wrote:
> I used to know how to change it, but having a senior moment.
> 

I use the PrefBar extension.  It contains a menulist called User Agent
that allows you to change the UA string.  If you forget that you changed
the UA string, it reverts back to your default, when you either launch
or terminate SeaMonkey (I do not remember which, but the effect is the
same).

The data in the User Agent menulist requires updating now and then as
other browser developers release new browser versions.  This requires
completely deleting the User Agent menulist and then importing the new
data.  I can send you my current data, but I am unlikely to keep
providing future updates.  If you want a copy of my current data,
indicate that in this thread; I will then upload the file to my Web
server and report here the URI.

-- 
David E. Ross
.

Donald Trump claims everyone likes him.  Does that
include his ex-wives?  How about the students who
discovered that their education at Trump University
was worthless?
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