On 5/15/2016 1:23 PM, Ken Rudolph wrote:
> I'm running Win-7, SeaMonkey 2.40.
>
> I am having trouble with a site written especially to handle voting for
> a film festival. The site works perfectly in Chrome and I.E. It
> doesn't work with SeaMonkey (and it also didn't work in the identical
> way with Firefox 43.0.1). The browser strips out film titles and other
> important information on the site pages.
>
> I had trouble upgrading Firefox 43.0.1, since I knew there was a later
> version (the system froze during the update twice and never completed
> it). So I un-installed FF and re-installed a fresh version (46.0.1).
> After that the site in question ran perfectly, exactly the way it does
> in Chrome and I.E. But it still wouldn't run correctly in SeaMonkey.
>
> The site is https://notsiff.net/siff2016/siff.html . However one has to
> make a login and password to actually access the site, and the site is
> made for a small group of users for a specific purpose. But even on the
> log-in page using other browsers there are links opposite the icons that
> don't appear using SeaMonkey (and didn't appear using FF 43.0.
>
> I guess my question is this: My SeaMonkey info says:
> User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101
> Firefox/43.0 SeaMonkey/2.40
>
> And as I indicated Firefox 43.0.1 didn't display the site correctly. I
> was wondering if there is a version of SeaMonkey that utilizes the
> Firefox/46.0 engine. Maybe then the page would also work correctly in
> SeaMonkey.
>
> I'm not sure if this is a reportable bug, or if my SeaMonkey just hasn't
> updated to the latest browser version? Or what?
>
> Thanks for this site and all the help I've gotten here over the years
> since Netscape 0.8.
>
The problem is that "Advertise Firefox compatibility" (which you have
set) does not always help when Web sites are sniffing for the user agent
(UA) string. The mere presence of "SeaMonkey" in your UA string will
cause some sites to ignore the "Firefox" part. In other cases, all this
depends on the sequence such that
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101
SeaMonkey/2.40 Firefox/43.0
would work.
I have two suggestions:
1. Contact the owner of the Web site and strongly insist that SeaMonkey
should work with any Web page that works with Firefox because they both
use the same Gecko "guts" to render Web pages.
2. Install the PrefBar extension from
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/prefbar/>. Then edit
the User Agent menulist to include
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/45.0
giving it the Label "Firefox 45" (without the quotes). If there already
is a Firefox entry, replace that entry with the above. Use the menulist
to spoof Firefox (make the Web site think you are using Firefox).
Note that, if you forget to restore your actual UA string, PrefBar does
that, either when SeaMonkey is terminated or when a terminated SeaMonkey
is launched (I forget which of these). Also note that "terminated"
includes switching profiles.
--
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>.
Donald Trump claims everyone likes him. Does that
include his ex-wives? How about the students who
discovered that their education at Trump University
was worthless?
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