On 1/4/11 7:23 PM, Rufus wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 1/4/11 5:47 PM, Rufus wrote: >>> David E. Ross wrote: >>>> On 1/4/11 4:17 AM, Ray_Net wrote: >>>>> David E. Ross wrote: >>>>>> On 1/3/11 2:06 PM, 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. >>>>>> >>>>>> The code in SeaMonkey is NOT the code of Firefox. >>>>> >>>>> Why SM 2.1.x spoof itself by default firefox then ? >>>> >>>> This change is being made to avoid the problems cited at the start of >>>> this thread. This was imposed by changing the Gecko core or another >>>> core-like component that is required by SeaMonkey. The change is >>>> optional with the default to spoof Firefox. The option is controlled by >>>> a preference variable that can be set in the user.js file or via >>>> about:config in the browser. >>>> >>>> It is my understanding that Robert Kaiser (SeaMonkey guru) was not happy >>>> about this change. If my understanding is wrong, I hope Kaiser will >>>> correct me. >>>> >>> >>> ...I'm not happy and I hope that Robert isn't either and is able to do >>> something about this "improvement". I'd far more prefer the actual SM >>> default, and an interfaced, drop-down listed set of UA strings like is >>> built into Safari Developer Tools. >>> >> >> A drop-down selection list of UA strings for spoofing is available from >> either the PrefBar or UserAgentSwitcher extensions. These both have the >> feature that your actual UA string is restored when you exit the browser >> in case you forget that you were spoofing some other browser. >> > > Yes, which is great. But if SM is now going to make your default > something other than the truth anyway?..well, I'd rather just see that > left out and User Agent Switcher built in. >
The "feature" is not yet in a final version of SeaMonkey. When it is, I plan to set the preference variable to not spoof Firefox. I want to see which Web sites are problematical. The problem is that I cannot remember what is the name of the variable. -- 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
