On 9/5/19, Paul B. Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote:
> David E. Ross wrote:
>> On 9/5/2019 9:02 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
>>> Based on info received here, I created a user.js (never had one before)
>>> so I could pass a different UA to one particular problem site. But I
>>> can't tell if it's working. Is there a way to confirm that the site's
>>> getting what I'm feeding it? Help | About just reports the standard UA.
>>>
>>> I placed the file here:
>>> C:\Users\(Windows
>>> Username)\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\(profilename).default\
>>>
>>> And here's the content, did I get it right?
>>>
>>> # Mozilla User Preferences
>>>
>>> user_pref("general.useragent.override.viki.com", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows
>>> NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0");
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>
>> 1. Go to the Web site of your concern.
>>
>> 2. With the Web page for the site still in SeaMonkey's window, on the
>> SeaMonkey menu bar, select [Help > About SeaMonkey] or [Help >
>> Troubleshooting Information].
>>
>> Either of those will display your current user agent string.
>
> As I said above, "Help | About just reports the standard UA." It reports
> the same UA no matter what site I'm visiting. Does that mean the user.js
> pref has no effect?
>
>> A more complicated method involves installing the "Live HTTP headers"
>> extension and capturing the headers sent (and also received) when you go
>> to the site.
>
> Hmmm....
I have an old copy of "Live HTTP headers" if you want it.
I tried adding
user_pref("general.useragent.override.google.com", "Mozilla/5.0
(Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0");
didn't change my user agent when visiting www.google.com, so added
user_pref("general.useragent.override.www.google.com", "Mozilla/5.0
(Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0");
which did change the ua string for www.google.com but not any other
.google sites referenced by the main page :(
Maybe try to find a user agent switcher addon that will let you change
the advertised ua on the fly?
Lee
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