If you so choose to do this then you can vi a file called user.js and put it in in ~/.mozilla/<username>/<weird directory>/
This will over rule the default user agent string for Mozilla. And yes it does work. When MS locked out browsers to MSN I used this to
Ben Rosenberg wrote: prove to
my office mate that people are just plain stupid and nothing is fool proof. -- user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)"); -- Put the above in the user.js but leave the -- that are before and after the line. It must be one like with no breaks.
Hi, I just tried this on Netscape 6.2, and IT WORKS!!! Very handy. :-) You must remove the -- before and after for Netscape 6.2, just 1 line with the info named "user.js". One word of warning....even after I took the user.js out, the effect remained. My Netscape 6.21 now says.... Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Z 9.5; Winblows NuT 5.0) heh, heh,heh....I like it. Actually I found that the user.js file will become incorporated into prefs.js automatically, so no problemo.; just remove the line. -- $|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1); for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}