Netscape help

[Ian Stephen]

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 12:53, Net Llama! wrote:

> Don't know about Netscape, but in Mozilla, you can enter "about:config"
> and then you can edit all the configuration options, including the
> "User_agent" option, which is the one you want. --

Hmmm, about:mozilla gives a bit of a surprise.

In my Mozilla 1.4 about:config I see

general.useragent.contentlocale  default  string  US
general.useragent.locale        default  string  en-US
general.useragent.misc          default  string  rv:1.4
general.useragent.security      default  string  U

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/embedding/prefs.html lists more
useragent things.

The ones present in my about:config don't identify the browser so can't
be used to spoof another.

I tried adding an IE6.0/WinXP useragent string in about:config, ie

user_pref("general.useragent.override","Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE
6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"

and Mozilla wouldn't start anymore.

http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#prefs
gives info on modifying user.js in your Mozilla profile, but I haven't
had any luck with that either.

Would like to get this as a local school district site that a couple of
days ago would only allow IE not allows Netscape 7.1.  This followed a
bit of discussion with the district information systems manager.  I am
hoping to demonstrate that Mozilla will work in their site too, but
can't get in.

Anyone had any success with changing their useragent string in Mozilla?

-- 
Ian Stephen <ianstepn at shaw.ca>