69025 - RFE: GUI to change user agent identification string option

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 46029

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Azrael AOD]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010215
BuildID: 2001021508   

RFE:
A means to easily change the user agent identification string, that is what the
browser identifies itself as being to websites.
Also an option under preferences to access this feature.
So rather than necessarily have 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; 0.8)
Gecko/20010215' appear, I could have anything else appear. 
Reason: this would allow people into sites that block access based on user.. or
redirects etc..
Plus there should be options, inbuilt, to mimic certain types of user agent
string (to save time).
A Mozilla button to get back to how it should be. 
A mimic NS4 button.
A mimic IE5 button.
etc...

I don't know how much work it'd take to make this thing possible.. definatly not
a priority. But if it is an easy simple task... even direction I coudl go to do
it myself would be appreciated...

Comment 1

[timeless]

this rfe is already filed, and we already support impersontation (just w/o a 
gui to change it). mpt probably won't encourage a ui for it.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

http://mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html under "useful preferences" lists:

// Override the default user-agent string:
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22smp
i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010110 Netscape6/6.5");

Comment 3

[Azrael AOD]

Sorry.. wasn't aware this was possible, thanks for the help. Still.. I think a 
gui would be nice... but.. not vital I do agree..

Comment 4

[timeless]

*** Bug 69326 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Fabian Guisset]

I'm surprised I couldn't find a dup either. Adding "GUI to" to the summary

Comment 6

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

really moving

Comment 7

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

I'm not saying we should have a GUI ... But if we did, it should be a single GUI 
for changing the user agent in both HTTP and Javascript at the same time. That 
dichotomy causes endless confusion amongst iCab users.

Comment 8

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Chaning the qa contact on these bugs to me. MPT will be moving to the 
owner of this component shortly. I would like to thank him for all his hard 
work as he moves roles in mozilla.org...Yada, Yada, Yada...

Comment 9

[ivo]

This feature is very important! Some strange way even www.ati.com does not like
Mozilla.

Mozilla Build ID: 2001022311
Output for URL www.ati.com

  Recommended Browsing Environments

Screen Resolution:
800x600, true color (24 bit)

Internet Browser:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x or greater
Netscape Navigator 4.x
We currently we do not support Netscape Navigator 6.x

Comment 10

[James Green]

Dup of bug 46029.


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

Comment 11

[timeless]

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