1505460 - SeaMonkey general.useragent.override.github.com for GitHub

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Graham Perrin]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.4 Lightning/5.4

At GitHub: 

> Please note that GitHub no longer supports old versions of Firefox.
> We recommend upgrading to the latest Safari, Google Chrome, or Firefox.

Non-working features include the Edit menu option for a comment.

Workaround: 

general.useragent.override.github.com

Re: <https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox/pull/784> the following value seems to be good for Waterfox: 

Mozilla/5.0 (rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0

For SeaMonkey, something else might be appropriate. 

Thanks

Comment 1

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

Personally I dislike adding user agents to the prefs. I rather tend to avoid sites and services which act like github. Glad that I use gitlab :)

But we need to at least mention it in the release notes. Same with google.

FRG

Comment 2

[bblack]

I think that works correctly.

This user agent works: 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53


This user agent don't work: 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0 SeaMonkey/2.53

Only if activated in the settings "Advertise Firefox compatibility" there is this problem.

Firefox/56.0 is an old version.
SeaMonkey/2.53 is not an old version.

So both are displayed correctly.

Comment 3

[bblack]

We may be able to increase the Firefox compatibility to a more recent value if the security patches of a later version have been integrated.

That is not completely correct, but not entirely wrong.