Mark B wrote:
Is it possible to specify a different user agent as a startup option for
SM in a desktop shortcut?
For example, a particular website will only allow a logon if I spoof FF
or Chrome. I do this by using the user agent switcher in my prefbar. So
I would like the Shortcut Target to be something like:
"C:\Program Files\SeaMonkey\seamonkey.exe" -useragent FF
"https://www.website.com/login.aspx#";
If not possible using prefbar agent switcher, is there another way?
I'm not aware of being able to do this from a command line.
Even though I'm an enthusiastic user of PrefBar for spoofing, there's a
a few sites that I visit often enough that I don't want to bother with
having to arrive at the site, get nagged about not running a browser
they don't like, use PrefBar to change the UA, reload the page, and then
remember to go back to the default UA when I'm done.
Thus, what I do for that is to use the site-specific variant of
general.useragent.override in about:config, to show the UA that I want
them to see, and that's visible every time that I visit those sites, and
I don't have to bother with adjusting when I visit.
One of the sites is Google's main page at google.com, which has an
annoying quirk of mis-locating a cursor in their search bar, if it sees
a Seamonkey UA. Thus, I have: general.useragent.override.google.com set
to show
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/68.0
I do the same for a couple of financial institutions that insist that I
should not be using Seamonkey 2.49.5, and for both of those, I have
entries that show:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/60.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.1
This latter one is what I believe will be used when Seamonkey 2.53 is
released, and I do want Seamonkey showing up in server logs. However,
for the two sites in question, I don't think they really care about
Seamonkey one way or the other, so long as their sniffers detect a
Firefox version that is >= 60.
Smith
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