Making Mozilla use IE's user-agent string (Re: [Techtalk] Recruiting :^))

Mary mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org
Fri Nov 14 09:34:27 EST 2003


On Thu, Nov 13, 2003, aqua cool wrote:
> --- TechChiq <techchiq at hotpop.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 08:15, Staci wrote:
> (...)
> > > come up with a way to spoof it, just like I can
> > set Mozilla to pretend it's IE. :)
>  
> How do u do it btw? :)

You need to change the user-agent string.  Ultimately I think it's a
setting somewhere in ~/.mozilla, but the easiest way to do it is to
install the Mozilla Evangelism sidebar. One of them has a whole list of
user agent strings that you can change to.

It seems to be here: http://mozilla-evangelism.bclary.com/sidebars/ but
that site looks different from the last time I installed the sidebar,
and Mozilla sidebars don't work with Mozilla Firebird so I can't test it
here.

If someone does test it, can you follow up confirming whether that's the
sidebar that lets you set your user-agent string.

-Mary


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