On 10/14/2015 1:32 PM, WaltS48 wrote: > On 10/14/2015 03:55 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >> David E. Ross wrote: >> >>> Actually, both of you (EE and Gallagher) have indeed spoofed (faked) >>> Firefox 41.0 to be your user agent. Your user agent strings are >>> >>>> Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:41.0) >>>> Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 SeaMonkey/2.38 >>>> >>> and >>> >>>> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 >>>> Firefox/41.0 SeaMonkey/2.38 >>>> >>> respectively. That is how "Advertise Firefox compatibility" works. >>> I disabled that capability, so my user agent is >>> >>>> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 >>>> SeaMonkey/2.38 >>>> >>> without any mention of Firefox. >> >> You're right, of course, but I'm sure neither of us made any special >> effort to do so. Those are the default UA strings nowadays unless the >> user intentionally disables "Advertise Firefox compatibility" as you have. >> >> As for the OP "BL," his UA string also advertises Firefox compatibility: >> >>> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 >>> Firefox/41.0 SeaMonkey/2.38 >> >> (same as mine), so he shouldn't be having a problem unless the web >> designer is using a bad sniffer. >> > > Maybe "BL" solved his problem, is busy and hasn't seen the replies, or > just doesn't want to respond for some reason. > > The <http://www.randwick.nsw.gov.au/> site works just fine in my SeaMonkey. > > A link to the site "BL" is having the problem with would be helpful. >
The Randwick site did not work for me until I disabled the Secret Agent extension. Then, it was okay even without "Advertise Firefox compatibility" or any other user agent spoofing. -- David E. Ross The Crimea is Putin's Sudetenland. The Ukraine will be Putin's Czechoslovakia. See <http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_PutinUkraine.html>. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
