73838 - Custom user-agent string for Mozilla

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 46029

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[wam2]

Mozilla and Netscape6 users are being penalized for using Mozilla by a number of
sites with broken browser sniffing (e.g., http://www.avl.com/,
http://mobileinternet.ericsson.se/, etc.), as well as by a number of banks (e.g.
bugs #57537, #73737).

Could Mozilla implement custom user agent strings? MSIE has been cloaked as
Mozilla forever, Opera went even further and allows the user to choose a user
agent string from a list (see File > Preferences > Connections in Opera 5.02).
Is there anything preventing Mozilla from doing the same thing?

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

This is being worked on. Marking dup of bug 46029 "[RFE] Multiple user_agent
prefs like in Opera."

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

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

Reporter: I marked dup, but the backend for this feature actually already exist
as a user-pref. See comments in bug 46029.

Comment 3

[timeless]

dupe of something that was already supported a long time ago.