On 1/3/11 8:20 PM, Rufus wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> > Rufus wrote: >>> Ray_Net wrote: >>>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >>>>> David E. Ross wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> .. Of course, that will hide the fact that SeaMonkey is in use and >>>>>> lead Web developers to ignore SeaMonkey. >>>>> >>>>> That's also a reason I frequently dispute folks when they say "just set >>>>> it to mask as IE and fuggetaboutit." :-/ >>>>> >>>> If the code in seamonkey *is* the code of firefox, it's normal that he >>>> *must* spoof as firefox. >>> >>> Not really - I generally spoof as Safari or IE if I encounter a sniffing >>> problem. Either works just fine, and I maintain listings of Safari and >>> IE versions under User Agent Switcher. >> >> I believe that Midori spoofs as Safari. >> >> I don't know what the history of Midori is, it just showed >> up in a version of Linux and I tried it out. >> > > The User Agent Switcher add-on allows a user to maintain lists of user > agent strings and spoof as whatever he wishes, whenever he wishes, using > selections from a drop-down menu. One of the other nice things about it > is that it always returns to the default string on close of session if > the user forgets to reset. > > And something I recently discovered about Safari is that this capability > is actually built into Safari - but it won't show unless the user > enables the Development Tools option. It's there as a tool for testing > web pages one develops, but it also works for spoofing on the fly. >
The PreBar extension has those same capabilities as User Agent Switcher plus many other features. -- 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
