[NTLUG:Discuss] Faking another Browser.

[lee]

http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html

near the bottom of the page in a section called

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Miscellaneous stuff
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

is the override to the user-agent string that you put in your prefs.js 
file.  your prefs.js is usually found on your system here: 
~/.mozilla/[profile-name]/[crypto-stuff]/prefs.js

you'll have to figger out how to exactly manipulate the string to mimic 
another browser...

-- lee

Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> My wife has been trying to access a web site that seems to be testing
> to see which browser we are using - and it complains if you are using
> anything *other* then Internet Explorer.  <grrrrr>
> 
> I vaguely recollect that you can tell Mozilla (or maybe it was one of
> the other Linux browsers) to lie to the HTTP server and pretend to be
> some other browser (eg Internet Explorer).
> 
> I've looked all over to try to figure out what to do - but I can't see
> that option anywhere.
> 
> Does anyone have a clue how to do that?
> 
> (I understand that the web site in question *might* still not work - but
> that's a risk I'm prepared to take).
> 
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