Re: TVGuide.com in 2.0

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:05:19 -0700 

 nr wrote:

On Oct 30, 3:27 am, Barry Edwin Gilmour<[email protected]>
wrote:

   nr wrote:

After switching to 2.0 I couldn't get TVGuide.com to show program
contents or change times.  I found one thread and after adding
'general.useragent.extra.seamonkey2' with 'Like Firefox/3.5', I can
now get the program contents but I still cannot change the times.
Cookies are allowed for the site and I had NoScript allowing all
scripts also.  This page worked fine in 1.1.18.  I'm running XP Pro
SP3.
Any ideas to solve this?  Thanks for any help.

The little-arrows that change-time-window pages, are a different problem
to the JavScript-popups that detail program-contents.
The time-window-page change-arrows always worked, and still-do work for
us, so it seems certain that you have another different-type of problem,
to contend with.
Re spoofing with the Firefox UI  after the SeaMonkey UI:--

We did some experimentation awhile-back, and found that putting the
"NOT Firefox" bit after the SeaMonkey/x.y.z, didn't always work on
some sites. It's probably better-to create a new-field, and then-to
simply-add the "NOT Firefox/3.x.x" new-string-identifier, which will
appear before the SM version UA identity in the UA-string. 
1/ Type"about:config"  in the SeaMonkey's browser URL-bar without
inverted-commas, to raise SeaMonkey's "about:config" options-page.

2/ Left-click on "Preference Name" in the "about:config" window's
   Title-bar, then Right-click to bring up the Preference-Bar menu.

3/ Select menu-item "New", sub-menu"String", to-raise the edit-box.

4/ Enter a new preference-name "general.useragent.extra.firefox"
without the inverted-commas, and click "OK".

Options:
5a/ For SeaMonkey-1.x.x, Enter the new string-value
"NOT Firefox/3.0", without the inverted-commas, and click "OK".
5b/ For SeaMonkey-2.x.x, Enter the new string-value
"NOT Firefox/3.5.3", without the inverted-commas, and click "OK".

6/ Close and restart SeaMonkey(or View/Reload), and then try to open the site
you could not use.

I have the 'not Firefox' string blanked out and put in the 'firefox'
one, but that does not get me the time changing ability.  What I
really don't understand is why this page worked fine in 1.1.18 but
won't work in 2.0.

On a related note, I was told that blanking out a string in
about:config would delete it when SM was closed and i believe this
worked in 1.1.18, but it's not happening with 2.0.  A delete option
here would sure be handy.

Thanks for your help with this.
No, without actually experiencing the time-change-arrows failure, I can't see what is happening., so am not really able to assist. I am hoping some kind-soul who may have experienced this failure previously, will jump in about now!
Deleting the "about:config" string in SM-2.0+, plus hitting the "reset" button under the menu-item "New"; should remove that preference-entry, but maybe not until you close the "about:config" tab/window, and reopen it. Putting the Firefox-spoof first, into the Build-identification-string progression, enables some cantankerous-sites that look for the UA-name, at the first-position in the string.
Just a thought, but I note the Firefox-ID is touching a comma in your UA-string. Perhaps putting a "space" behind the 3.5 may help delineate it a bit better? 

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