Arnie Goetchius wrote:
Yes, you can. However, you may want to leave Firefox installed. I just tried to
run a report on my broker's web site where the results of a the report are saved
to a file on my PC. Firefox would save the file but Seamonkey would not.
This topic has come up several times in this group, over the last year.
Some sites are aggressive with sniffing for browsers, and sometimes
they're over-aggressive about looking explicitly for Firefox, rather
than Gecko browsers. The problem lessened considerably after Seamonkey
changed the default user agent string to spoof Firefox, and show the
Seamonkey name, rather than explicitly identifying itself as Seamonkey
(without reference to Firefox).
However, there's still some sites (especially financial) that may barf
if they find a UA string that is something other than the one used by
Firefox itself. Some of it may be incompetence on the part of coders
who are doing browser sniffing, in not recognizing that Firefox is
merely one implementation of a Gecko browser, rather than the only one.
However, I think that a lot of times, insistence on Firefox comes from
people who do user support, allowing them to insist, "we only support
Firefox".
If you bump into the rare site that demands Firefox, then you can do
user agent spoofing, via an extension. User Agent Switcher and PrefBar
are the most common tools for doing that. Personally, I find PrefBar
easier to use, and I like the other things that it allows me to get to
quickly. The one catch with PrefBar is that the default user agent
strings offered are *really* old, and you have to go into the config
settings and adjust things so that you're showing a reasonably current
version of Firefox. It's easy enough to change browser string on the
fly, but if you use the default Firefox string, the version shown is in
the vintage of 4.x, and some sites will refuse that, because it's a
really old version of Firefox.
That said, there's nothing wrong with having more than one browser
installed, and in my own use, there are times when it's useful to have
more than one browser open simultaneously, especially on occasions when
I need to log into a web site with two different IDs simultaneously.
Smith
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