Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > 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/>
When I click on that link, it says "Not available for SeaMonkey 2.40" so it won't work for me. > > 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. > _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
