154645 - Faking to be a MSIE browser

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 80658

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Hans Christian Studt]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529
BuildID:    2002052918

Request for enhangement
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Some sites somehow only works if it thinks it is talking to a MS-browser.
In some cases this can be circomvented by letting Mozilla pretent to be a
MS-browser by modifying the file .mozilla/default/???????.slt/prefs.js and the
entry user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible;
MSIE5.5; Windows 98;");

The problem is that now all sites thinks that you are a MS-browser and
statistics will be twisted and not show the real usage of Mozilla.

I would like to suggest that the "useragent.override" option should be
modifiable on a per site basis like with the cookies.
This will enable users to truefully tell the world they use a Mozilla-browser
while pretent to be a MS-browser when talking to mono-culture-sites that only
works with MS-browsers.

It would be even better if there would be a "useragent manager" like the "cookie
manager" under Preferences->Privacy&Security->Cookies.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80658 ***

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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