Rob Steinmetz wrote on 22/11/2019 4:27 AM:
Daniel wrote:
Rob Steinmetz wrote on 21/11/2019 5:34 AM:
Lemuel Johnson wrote:
On 11/5/2019 5:04 AM, Thomas Pamin wrote:
I'm getting a lot more messages on web sites than I used to to
upgrade my browser. My general.useragent.override string is:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/59.0
Can I change this so I get less nags to upgrade?
Firefox is now at 70, there's no point in advertising any version
older than that.
L. Johnson
I don't know about that.
We are required to use a specific site to enter billing information
for one of our customers, a Fortune 50 Corporation You Have All Heard
Of. It won't accept any modern browser, Internet Explorer, Edge,
Chrome, and Firefox all fail and of course it won't accept SeaMonkey.
The Popup lists these three choices:
Internet Explorer 8
Firefox 3.6
Safari 4
I was afraid of using a browser so old or spoofing a user agent that
old so I went ahead and installed Firefox 3.6.19 (I think that was
the last update) on one computer and it works. I have issued
instructions not to use that browser for anything else and turned off
updates. I'm sort of surprised it even runs on a recent x64 version
of Windows.
Rob, did you try using your current'ish SeaMonkey/Firefox, setting up
an account to be used just for that one customer but spoof the User
Agent to suit the old FF UA.
This could work, if it were just you working on that one computer,
but, if multiple users use that computer, it might be more effort than
it's worth!!
I didn't - we had kind of an emergency. That computer is used by one
person who needs to access that one website. I was afraid that without
extensive testing there might be some issues spoofing the user agent.
That user will only use that browser to access that website, so I think
it should be OK. I mostly posted this to show how far behind some people
are.
Hey ... "When you're on a good thing, stick to it!!" ;-)
I have user agent switcher on my machine and I may try to test it later
when I have time. That version of Firefox is listed under Legacy Browsers.
If you already have 'user agent switcher' on the other machine, fine,
but if not, you could set up an override useragent just for that one
website so in 'normal' use it would show as its 'normal' self but when
addressing your favourite site, it would indicate it's as old as the
hills. Even when you were to update to a new version, it would still
function as you require!
--
Daniel
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
SeaMonkey/2.49.5 Build identifier: 20190609032134
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