meagain wrote:
Will SeaMonkey fans ('SM lovers' didn't sound right) really have to
use a different User-Agent for each and every web sight?
- meagain
I use a user-agent override that claims to be Firefox 62. That works
well for me.
What is a user-agent override and how do I get (and use/install) it?
Unfortunately, for a growing number of web sites, Seamonkey is regarded
as dead (or at least irrelevant). There's just not enough users for the
sites to care about. It doesn't help when Seamonkey 2.53 is still based
on Firefox versions older than 57.0 -- there's a growing number of sites
that are rejecting connections Firefox versions that are 56 and older.
To that end, I know that the User Agent string for Seamonkey 2.53.2 is
set to show Firefox 60.
Google has been a problem for some time, where the normal Seamonkey UA
string causes a funny display in the search bar at www.google.com. Not
really a problem, but annoying. I can get around that with browser
spoofing, where I have an entry in about:config where I set
general.useragent.override.google.com to show:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/68.0
(with no mention of Seamonkey). I've done similar with a couple of
other sites don't like a stock Seamonkey UA, where I show:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/60.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.2
where I did site-specifics general.useragent.override entries. I did
these sites before Seamonkey configs were updated to show Firefox 60, so
they may not be necessary now.
As for Google, they have their own ideas of what they want to do with
their content (especially YouTube), and you should assume that a lot of
it is going to be optimized to run in Chrome. I don't do a lot with
YouTube, so I haven't seen problems. On the other hand, I know that
I've seen Frank-Rainier Grahl note that for stuff he does with YouTube,
it's faster/easier to just use Chrome for that, rather than fighting
with known limitations of Seamonkey.
Remember, there's nothing that requires you to use one browser
exclusively for everything. Although I don't like Chrome, I can
certainly see a valid approach in using Chrome for YouTube, if that's
what it takes to get YouTube to do what I want.
In a similar way, because I do a lot of tweaking to my primary Seamonkey
profile, with strict handling on cookies, and liberal use of uBlock
Origin and NoScript, there's a number of sites (especially eCommerce)
that I can't get to behave adequately without an undue amount of
wrestling. I generally assume that those kinds of problems are
predominantly related to my profile, rather than more general problems
with Seamonkey, and for that I have a Firefox profile that's mostly
untweaked, where I will use that for a one-off session to get done what
I need.
Smith
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