Paul B. Gallagher wrote :
> Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
>> In the same vein, I am very disturbed to see that Seamonkey now
>> reports itself (in the User-Agent field) as "Firefox/6.0.2" (amongst
>> other, more honest, claims); it is, and should be proud to be,
>> "SeaMonkey/2.3.3", and should not seek to pretend that it is that
>> which it is not. ...
>>
>> For the whole of my life, I have believed in telling the truth, the
>> whole truth, and nothing but the truth; I am deeply saddened to find
>> that a product in which I have previously had complete confidence,
>> and which I have previously recommended unreservedly to others, is
>> now prepared to lie.
>
> How else would you treat the idiots who design websites without knowing the
> word "Gecko," who write browser sniffers that reject SM because it's not
> called "Firefox"? We've been all through this. We're not fooling anyone with
> a lick of sense, just the idiots.
For those who are content to lie about their user agent,
there is a perfectly good plug-in/add-on :
Prefbar : http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org/
Lying should be a user choice, not something forced on
users by the Seamonkey developers.
Philip Taylor
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