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[Hans Christian Studt <hcstudt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kristian Duus Østergaard wrote:
> Sitet kan kom til at virke i mozilla med følgende hack. Tilføj følgende
> på een linie i .mozilla/default/???????.slt/prefs.js:
> user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible;
> MSIE5.5; Windows 98;");
> Jeg har lige testet det og der ser ikke ud til at være problemer med
> det, desværre er det lidt ærgeligt at man må lade som om man er en
> Internet Explorer :-(

Hej,

Jeg har oprettet følgende request for enhangement til Mozilla

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154645

           Summary: Faking to be a MSIE browser
           Product: Browser
           Version: other
          Platform: All
               URL: http://www.billigmedien.de
        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: --
         Component: Browser-General
        AssignedTo: Matti@xxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: hc@xxxxxxxx
         QAContact: imajes-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529
BuildID:    2002052918

Request for enhangement
=======================
Some sites somehow only works if it thinks it is talking to a MS-browser.
In some cases this can be circomvented by letting Mozilla pretent to be 
a MS-browser by modifying the file .mozilla/default/???????.slt/prefs.js 
and the entry user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 
(compatible; MSIE5.5; Windows 98;");

The problem is that now all sites thinks that you are a MS-browser and
statistics will be twisted and not show the real usage of Mozilla.

I would like to suggest that the "useragent.override" option should be
modifiable on a per site basis like with the cookies.
This will enable users to truefully tell the world they use a 
Mozilla-browser while pretent to be a MS-browser when talking to 
mono-culture-sites that only works with MS-browsers.

It would be even better if there would be a "useragent manager" like the 
"cookie manager" under Preferences->Privacy&Security->Cookies.
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