Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
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
I'm perfectly happy not having to use another extension. The fewer the
better as far as I am concerned.
Then again, following these newsgroups I must be using my browser(s)
wrong, because I don't need most of the extensions I see being discussed.
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