On 4/20/10 6:41 PM, NoOp wrote: > 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.
I strongly recommend against setting a preference variable to spoof permanently. It causes misleading information to appear in server logs. As a result, Web developers fail to recognize any use of SeaMonkey and thus develop even more Web sites that sniff for "Firefox" instead of "Gecko". (Of course, there is usually no good reason for sniffing at all.) -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
