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[Don Lewis]

On  6 Feb, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> Kevin Oberman writes:
>> >  > Where would I find User Agent Switcher by Linder?  Would it be
>> >  > on a Mozilla site, and would it work with SeaMonkey?
> 
>> >  > Would the several Firefox or SeaMonkey extensions have similar
>> >  > functionality?
> 
>> >  It's available through Firefox from about:addons. It is the one by
>> >  Linder, one of at eat three extensions of the same name. I don't
>> >  know about SeaMonkey. Does it support the extension interface like
>> >  Firefox? If so, it will probably work. You might also check the
>> >  website at http://mybrowseraddon.com/useragent-switcher.html
> 
>>       Seamonkey - which was my default browser until it was no longer
>> updated -   came with this ability built in.  The only problem was
>> the list of alternate identities was vintage, like, 2000 with no way
>> (that I knew of)  to change it.
> 
> 
>>                       Respectfully,
> 
> 
>>                               Robert Huff
> 
> I went to seamonkey-project.org website a few months ago, saw it was
> still being developed, not dead, not lame-duck.
> 
> I defined a separate profile, named "chase", where I went to
> about:config, defined general.useragent.override (not sure if I
> remembered that perfectly) to be the regular user agent string but
> with "SeaMonkey" removed.
> 
> Then the web server recognized the browser as Firefox.  I don't see
> what's so bad about including "SeaMonkey", but that's how the web
> server software works: buggy, or maybe the bug is in the head of that
> software developer and/or webmasters who continue to use that web
> server software even after being informed about the bug.

I use Firefox.  In my case, the server was upset that I wasn't running
my browser on Windows or Mac.  I changed the user agent string to tell
the server that I was running the latest Firefox on Windows 2000, which
made it happy.  I tried for Windows 98, but couldn't get that to work.