97596 - Mozilla won't start with spoofed useragent with version <5

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 83376

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Chris Underhill]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010827)
BuildID:    2001082708

If I try to spoof my useragent field by editing user.js in my profile directory,
and I specify a browser version of <5, mozilla will not start and generates an
error,

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Add/amend the line in user.js

user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5;
Windows NT 4.0)");

to match what MSIE uses, and then try and start Mozilla

Actual Results:  Mozilla does not start with the following messages in my
terminal window:

INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Expected a version > 5! Version = 0

System error?:: Invalid argument

Expected Results:  Mozilla should start.

Setting to Mozilla/5.0  (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) however works fine.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This is a dupe of bug 83376

You can use a spoofed UA String if you disable the Java Plugin..


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83376 ***

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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