374418 - SeaMonkey user-agent and Firefox

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 387416

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Dan Mellem]

Years ago, Mozilla ran in to problems with lots of web sites that only looked for MSIE and Netscape in the User-Agent fields. Slowly Mozilla was supported in part by the hard work of the Evangelism group. We're now starting to run in to web sites that only support MSIE and Firefox but block SeaMonkey.

I don't have any great suggestions for preventing this. SeaMonkey and Firefox could use the same U-A ID, but that would probably be wontfix. Built-in U-A spoofing could also help.

Comment 1

[crf]

The reason why sites would use the user agent field is because they think it very important to support only those browsers they've tested. 

So it is good to be truthful, I think.

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A user can change the user agent field, if they desire, with an extension (works with ff and seamonkey):
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/59/

Comment 2

[Dan Mellem]

I agree with you. I don't like having to change my user-agent settings. Many places come up with a page saying it's unsupported but you can continue, but some I've hit recently say odd things like SeaMonkey not supporting CSS. For these sites I've taken to using about:config and changing my useragent.

I've created general.useragent.firefox (not a real setting) = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1" and then just copy this into general.useragent.override but I really shouldn't need to do this.

Comment 3

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of bug 80658, bug 386113 or bug 387416?

Comment 4

[Philip Chee]

> Duplicate of bug 80658, bug 386113 or bug 387416?
Probably duplicate of bug 387416.