On 9/16/10 2:46 PM, Beverly Howard wrote: > Way back in may Peter Potamus posted some user agent tips > > >> > Another option is to type in the address bar: > > about:config > > then right click on an entry and select New, String and > in the first box enter: > > general.useragent.extra.xfake > > change the xfake to anything you like > > then in the next box put in: > > not Firefox/2.0.0.20 > << > > Can someone help enlighten me on how the above works as I would have > assumed that the way to deal with it would have been to replace the > "Seamonkey" string with the firefox string. > > While I have been using user agent switcher for a long time, the need to > spoof firefox has gotten so common, I need a default fix. > > There appears to be no option in user agent switcher to set the > "default" other than by using about:config so, since it reverts to > "default" for each session, need to get educated. > > Thanks in advance, > Beverly Howard
Manually setting preference variables to spoof Firefox permanently will cause server logs to report the use of Firefox for ALL Web sites you visit. In the end, if this practice becomes widespread, it will cause Web developers to think NO ONE is using SeaMonkey. It is much better to use PrefBar or UserAgentSwitcher. These provide easy ways to spoof Firefox when necessary and then revert back to not spoofing. However, the current versions of these extensions are not necessarily compatible with SeaMonkey 1.x. If you are not ready to update to SeaMonkey 2.x, you need to search for older versions of these extensions. For a discussion of sniffing and spoofing, see my <http://www.rossde.com/internet/sniffing.html>. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
