JD wrote:
Daniel wrote:
Tony Higgins wrote:
Paul wrote:
Tony Higgins wrote:
I received the message below from PayPal. Here's my version
information:
Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14
I've used Netscape/Sea Monkey for browsing and email for about a
dozen years and don't wish to change now. I particularly like being
to simultaneously manage 5 email addresses. PayPal's page has no
instructions for Sea Monkey. When I check for updates from the Help
menu no updates are found. What do I do?
Tony
It works great for me. No messages from PP.
SeaMonkey 1.1.19
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24)
Gecko/20100228 NOT Firefox/3.5 SeaMonkey/1.1.19 Firefox/2.0.0.24
So should I revert to Version 1.1.19? Or are there security updates I
can apply to what I have? I just got the message from PayPal today. I
just used it last week to pay for a couple of eBay items.
Tony, if you check Paul's Build Identifier you will notice that his SM
identifies as both SeaMonkey *AND* Firefox.
More and more sites are browser sniffing and displaying their data to
suit the browser, but only a few browsers are accepted, MSIE and Firefox
being two. This problem is so widespread that when SM 2.1 is released,
it will identify itself as both SeaMonkey AND Firefox, just like Paul's
2.0 does now.
Tony, if you want to fix this situation in SM 2.0.14, enter about:config
in a browser address line. You will get a warning screen, if you're
comfortable accept it, then in the "Filter" line of that screen type
"useragent" (without the quotes).
Then either alter general.useragent.extra.seamonkey to include the word
Firefox (and a version number if you like), or right click on any pref
and give yourself a NEW string pref,
general.useragent.extra.seamonkey.firefox, set it as a string and give
it a value that includes the word "Firefox" (without the quotes). Close
the prefs page, restart SeaMonkey, go to the pages that were giving you
troubles and see how you go.
Report back here if necessary.
I don't use PayPal but I'm always interested in problems with the
UserAget. I use PrefBar which allows me to change the UA on the fly but
none of mine defeat the PayPal BS:
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=security/hardware_software_protection
I've got a variety of UA variations:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19)
Gecko/20110420 Lightning/1.0b2 NOT Firefox 4.0b8pre SeaMonkey/2.0.14
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17)
Gecko/20080829 NOT Firefox/2.0.0.12 SeaMonkey/2
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0;
SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media
Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; FDM)
None of them pass the PayPal test.
Oh well! I tried.
Daniel
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Daniel
with just XXX messages to read in moz.general
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