On 4/20/2010 12:01 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: ... >> To defeat sniffing, use any of the various extensions that allow you to >> spoof Firefox. For an explanation of "spoofing", see my >> <http://www.rossde.com/internet/intr_gloss.html#spoof>. >> > You can do that, but it's one more thing to track, update, etc. You can also > go > into about:config and select "useragent" in the select box. Right click and > define a new string value called general.useragent.extra.firefox with a > string > value of "NOT Firefox/3.5.3" (or 3.0.11 for 1.1.xx). This will cause sniffinf > for firefox to match and everything to work. And you need no extensions to > maintain. >
I think that instead you'd want to add: general.useragent.extra.firefox and set the string accordingly. However I ran across a site this weekend that didn't accept even that. So I ended up putting this in the string instead: Firefox/3.6.3 (NOT - it's really SeaMonkey! Stop browser sniffing) Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Firefox/3.6.3 (NOT - it's really SeaMonkey! Stop browser sniffing) Lightning/1.0b1 SeaMonkey/2.0.4 That worked. Site is here: http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/Get-Started/Install/Default.aspx WRT David's point; it's not always possible, or easy, to train someone using SeaMonkey to try a prebar or other such spoofing client. Most of the time I'd just rather use general.useragent.extra.firefox and be done with it as I don't really have time to investigate why a website is working with Firefox & not with SeaMonkey. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
