175143 - RFE: Per-site user agent spoofing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 46029

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Niklas Dougherty]

One major drawback for the success of Mozilla is that many sites, notably banks,
use browser sniffing to exclude any browsers but Exploiter and legacy Netscapes.
Instead of tiresome and often unseuccessful evangelism, Mozilla should deal with
this behavior by having an option to spoof user-agent information on a per-site
basis. This would not wreck statistics in general and would not scare off new
Mozilla users (who will blame the browser and will refuse to use two browsers
for different tasks).

Just like images and cookies can be blocked for any site, there could be an
option to send a certain user-agent string, i.e. (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE
5.0; Mac_PowerPC) Gecko/20021016 Mozilla 1.2b/Mac OS X [spoof]), for certain
sites. This could be a list of some common user-agents, with the addition of
Mozilla at the end to give log analyzers something to think about.

Personally, I fix this with Privoxy, but that is not a viable option for the
majority of users. Mozilla needs to get tougher on these issues and
counter-strike wherever idotic web design is applied.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

this is wontfix but we will add a pref for debugging.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 46029 ***