On 11/25/10 6:21 AM, WLS wrote: > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >> WLS wrote: >> >>> Jane_Galt wrote: >>>> Is Seamonkey considered defunct now? >> >> No. >> >>>> I cant even get it to work anymore with my subscription of Webshots. >>>> Yet FF and Internet Explorer work with it. >>> >>> Works fine here. .... >> >> The usual answer is the site is using browser sniffing, and won't >> recognize any but 'common' browsers. The JavaScript on their main page >> (Jane didn't specify any specific page) looks for "Internet Explorer", >> "Firefox", "Safari", "Chrome", "Netscape" (!), "Opera", but not >> "SeaMonkey". (Yet another example of author bungle.) >> >> Adding the oft-mentioned "NOT Firefox" to the SeaMonkey User Agent >> string might help. WLS, have you done this? >> > > It is already in there in the SM 2.1 build configuration. > > Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:2.0b8pre) > Gecko/20101125 Firefox/4.0b8pre SeaMonkey/2.1b2pre > > WLS
However, the "pre" strings sometimes cause problems with servers sniffing for the Palm Pre smartphone, another example of why sniffing is generally bad. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
