Ray_Net wrote:
As I understand it, now that you have it set to
"general.useragent.override", ever site you visit will think you are
using FF V78, not SM.
That's correct. It's a general setting that covers all of Seamonkey,
including your email. Thus, in the message wrote, there is this header:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:61.0)
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/74.0
Since I have the dispMUA extension installed, the message used to write
this text, that's showing that you were using Firefox to compose your
message. Since I know about spoofing, I know that's what you're doing,
but there may be occasions when you send mail, it might cause an issue
with showing the identity of a browser, rather than a legitimate mail
client.
With that in mind, I tend to prefer doing more granular spoofing in
places that need it rather than doing it globally. I have a strong
liking for PrefBar, and I have nearly a dozen different UAs available
for spoof. Besides getting past sites that don't behave correctly when
they see a Seamonkey UA, I've found a couple other places where spoofing
is really useful.
One is for software distributors that support multiple operating
systems, where they use UA sniffing to determine what system you're
running, and when you download, they'll give you the download that
corresponds to your platform. For non-technical users, that's useful,
in making sure that the correct download is delivered, but for me, I
have an extensive collection of downloads that I use for support
purposes. By using spoofing, I can tell a site that I'm running a Mac,
and get a Mac download, even if I'm using Windows. I also find that
spoofing is useful when testing my own web page, to make sure that the
page handles different UAs correctly.
With PrefBar, I can do on-the-fly changes of what I'm showing to a site,
and then switch back to the default Seamonkey UA when I no longer need
spoofing.
As an example, I have added some new entries where I changed the string
accordingly with host I reach;
general.useragent.override.google.com -- string set to: Mozilla/5.0
(Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0
I've done precisely this with Google. That one clears the display quirk
that's in Google's search bar. For some reason, Google doesn't like a
Firefox UA that shows the name of Firefox-derived project. They want
only stock Firefox. If I remember correctly, PaleMoon has the same issue
as Seamonkey.
I also do spoofing with general.useragent.override for a couple of
financial sites that were complaining about Firefox 52 when I was
running Seamonkey 2.49.x. Since I visit those sites frequently enough,
I don't want to bother with turning spoofing on and off in PrefBar, so
it's worth it to me to do site-specific spoofs. Since I've moved to
Seamonkey 2.53, I'm guessing that those sites are no longer complaining
(at least for now), but since the spoofing that I was using is for the
then-beta of 2.53.1 (which shows Firefox 60), I haven't bothered to
update or remove. I'll probably want to update when 2.53.2 gets out the
door.
Smith
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