Can you provide a reference to the steps necessary to accommodate the spoofing and the text of the spoofs? I would really like to read up on the process before I jump into it.
BTW, I run SeaMonkey 2.0.13 on XP and on Win7-64bit. Thanks, Jay On 4/26/2011 12:22 PM, NFN Smith wrote: > See my previous post in this thread. > > There's more than one way to go about spoofing. Ultimately, the setting > you're working with is in your prefs.js file, > general.useragent.override. You can edit the prefs.js directly with a > text editor, or get to it via putting about:config in the Seamonkey > address bar. However, once you make a change, if you want to change to > something else (e.g., you make a temporary change), then you have to > repeat the process each time you change. > > For me, the strong preference is in using PrefBar, which allows for > quick, on-the-fly changes. That way, if I'm at a site that doesn't like > Seamonkey, then I can grab the spoofing I want at that particular moment. > > The defaults offered by PrefBar are mostly old, and so you generally > have to do some editing to account for more current versions. You > probably won't want/need to spoof Netscape 1.7.3 for Linux very often... > > As noted previously, inserting "SeaMonkey/2.0.13 NOT " before "Firefox/" > (at the end of the string) is a good way of spoofing so that "Firefox" > will satisfy the site in question, but that you're showing "Seamonkey", > and that it shows up in the logs. That's something that I found by > reading the archives of this group. > > Most of the time, spoofing this way works, but I do occasionally hit > sites that do browser sniffing differently, and as a result, I do keep a > spoof string that is a full copy of a valid string presented by Firefox. > Right now, this is what Yahoo is doing with its beta. > > Smith _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
