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| From | "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.software.firefox |
| Subject | Re: An annoying state of affairs |
| Date | 2025-04-30 17:23 -0700 |
| Organization | I am @ David at rossde dot com. |
| Message-ID | <vuueu5$1diu1$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <5c15d17484dnews@triffid.co.uk> <vuu47v$1474o$1@dont-email.me> |
On 4/30/2025 2:22 PM, Newyana2 wrote:
> On 4/30/2025 3:33 PM, Dnews wrote:
>> Good day folks,
>> An annoying state of affairs has presented itself for my dear wife.
>>
>> She's been using Firefox on MS Windows for many years, and recently a
>> couple of sites she uses will not work with firefox.
>>
>> She's communicated with them and they say their sites have been tailored
>> to work with 'MS-Edge or Google Chrome for a smoother and better
>> experience for the users', and so she should use one of them. :-( (Crap).
>>
>> I have a vague recollection there is a setting in About:config Preferences
>> to spoof/make Firefox appear to be another browser, like Edge. :-(
>>
>> Is there a setting I can use to fix this for her?
>>
>> What might it be?
>>
>
> You can spoof the userAgent. They don't make it easy.
> First you have to set thisvalue to true, or add it if it's
> not there:
>
> general.useragent.enable_overrides
>
> Then put the new value in this setting:
>
> general.useragent.override
>
> This is a recent one for Chrome:
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
> like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.3
>
> You can try that. Maybe it will work. But I don't think most
> of these sites are blocking FF. They're just using jazzed up
> javascript, optimized for Chrome. The people you're talking
> to have no idea what they're doing. They're just using automated
> tools and not bothering to test the code. It's no use talking
> to them about things like supporting all browsers. Most of
> these people have no idea of even how to write HTML. Some
> of the pages areactually javascript software programs, with
> zero HTML.
>
> What I do is to keep a portable copy of unGoogled Chrome.
> I use that when I have to, mostly highly interactive sites like
> login for my doctor. Otherwise I use FF. I have NoScript in both
> browsers.
>
I don't know if this works for Firefox, but it does work for SeaMonkey.
What you need is a preference in the form
user_pref("general.useragent.override.xxx.yyy", "zzz");
where xxx.yyy is the basic domain of the Web site causing trouble and
ZZZ is the complete user agent string of the browser you want to spoof.
This means you will always spoof when visiting xxx.yyy by claiming to be
the browser with the UA string zzz without having to enable the spoof
beforehand and disabling it afterwards.
Using SeaMonkey, I spoof an old version of Firefox when visiting the Web
site of the U.S. Postal service with the following:
user_pref("general.useragent.override.usps.com", "Mozilla/5.0
(Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:75.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/75.0");
// make USPS think I have Firefox 75.0
I put this in user.js, not prefs.js, because I can notate settings in
user.js. The // indicates a comment for such a notation. Remember, the
semi-colon (;) at the end is required. Having set a preference via
user.js, it is necessary to terminate and then relaunch the browser.
--
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>
President Trump wants all Palestinians to leave Gaza and
relocate elsewhere. How many will he accept to relocate
in the United States?
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