Ken Rudolph wrote:
Chase Bank is insisting that soon they are going to refuse to access
their site with my "outdated" browser. Of course my SeaMonkey
browser is up to date (Win 7, SM 2.39); but they don't accept
SeaMonkey as an approved browser. I would like to change my User
Agent that is sent out to Firefox 30.0 or something similar to spoof
them. Could somebody please tell me EXACTLY STEP BY STOP how to do
this even for an idiot like me! The alternate is to give up
SeaMonkey and I don't want to do that.
My initial reaction was, "take a deep breath and cross the bridge when
you come to it." Banks make stupid threats like this all the time; mine
(rhymes with "Key Largo") has for years and nothing has come of it.
SeaMonkey still works, always has.
But now I see in your later posts that SeaMonkey already doesn't work
with Chase? Or are you just getting a nag that you can dismiss and
ignore, like when you update Flash and it always wants to bundle McAfee
or Yahoo or Chrome or something?
If you can't bypass the nag -- if they really insist on enforcing their
idiocy -- you have to treat them as idiots and lie to them. It's called
"user agent spoofing." Paul in Houston, TX has offered one way of doing
it; the User Agent Switcher add-on is another.
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/user-agent-switcher/>
And of course you can always switch to a bank not run by idiots. Won't
hurt Chase; as the AT&T monopolists used to say before the breakup, "we
don't have to care." But it'll save you the hair-pulling.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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