203498 - Need to be able have the browser identify itself as something else

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 173892

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Alan Batie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

It's evil to do it, but it's more evil for these stupid web pages to refuse to
try to work with an unknown browser.  I have to switch to Opera to use these
stupid sites.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[WD]

http://uabar.mozdev.org/

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

It's possible and we will not add a UI for this 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 173892 ***

Comment 3

[anonymous681]

Opera identifies itself as MSIE 6.0 by default, and there are issues for that
browser if users try to make Opera identify itself as Opera on some sites due to
poor user agent sniffing implementations.

You can (also) use Mozilla’s hidden preferences, general.useragent.override
(string), to override the default user agent string it sends.