Closed Bug 211099 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

GUI option to change browser identification

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

x86
Windows XP
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 173892

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425 Add an option to the Preferences menu allowing the user to alter how the browser identifies itself. This feature is present in Opera, and allows the browser to masquerade as other "equivalent browsers." I think this is important primarily because of the carelessness of some web developers that target only IE and Netscape. Case in point: http://www.jasc.com - Their current javascript menu system only functions for browsers declared as Internet Explorer and Netscape. Mozilla, which netscape is not only based on, but at this point may even be superior to depending on version, will NOT display functional menus since it is not declared as either of the above. If I had my first choice I'd make all developers be sure to include Moz in their scripts, but since the world has never worked that way and never will, I suggest we do our best to work around it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 173892 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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