SeaMonkey not recognized
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Some sites do not recognize SeaMonkey as a legitimate browser, or think cookies are not turned on when they are.
However, these sites do recognize FireFox. Can't the Mozilla people add a chingozzle or two to trick these sites into thinking it's FireFox? Frank ![]() Moving to SeaMonkey Support as no bug has been identified here.
Already does with the Firefox in useragent enabled in Preferences as your SM UA shows. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 SeaMonkey/2.33.1 Also SeaMonkey is not a Mozilla product but done by SeaMonkey community. > Some sites
URLs ? Have you contacted them? Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
If default compatibility mode (you have it running) doesn't work then you can tune SM a little: 1) type "about:config" (without quote marks) in address bar and hit Enter key, 2) click Right Mouse Button anywhere and choose "New" and then "String" 3) type "general.useragent.override.[domain_name]" (e.g. general.useragent.override.adobe.com) 4) as a value enter User Agent of latest Firefox: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0" Maybe it'll help a little.
Please, don't be silly! They do not care about "small" browsers like SeaMonkey. They don't want to have any problems so they're ignoring everything but most popular browsers (IE, Chrome, Fx). ![]()
On the other hand they can't care about "small" browsers like SeaMonkey if they don't know that folks using that browser are having problems. Tell them about it but don't expect an immediate and positive response.
I did it several times (for polish and other sites; including Google and Adobe.com). There where almost no response. Almost because once I've received reply with information: "We're supporting major browsers only. Sorry." And I'm not expecting they'll made changes on their websites. I was hopping for lack of blockades: like e.g. "If it's not IE/Firefox then GTFO". If SeaMonkey can handle with such website using different User Agent only then for me it's some kind of blockade. Why they doing this? IMO it's "support/help desk" thing. In their "Help/FAQ" section they don't want that many entires. It's matter of time and money too. TPR75-
You have an odd user agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.33.1" It should read "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101Firefox/36.0 SeaMonkey/2.33.1[" I am not certain how to fix that (someone here will), but it might solve the problem. Post wrangler
"Choose between the Food Select Feature or other Functions. If no food or function is chosen, Toast is the default." Edit - Preferences - Advanced - HTTP Networking - Advertise Firefox compatibility
I've got CORRECT user agent for SeaMonkey. I'm not using "compatibility mode" to let them (webmasters) know what browser I'm using... ![]() For some websites with "stubborn/lazy" webmasters I'm using "override" option. Last edited by TPR75 on May 29th, 2015, 8:15 am, edited 1 time in total.
It might also help to contact website owners and point out that Gecko is the rendering engine used by a whole family of Web browsers. If they sniff for Gecko rather than Firefox, they'll expand their browser support. There's information at Gecko is Gecko, though some of it is a bit dated. But then again, I may be wrong.
That [.domain_name] does not work anymore, removed due to performance issues. "general.useragent.override" (no .domain) does remain & can still be used.
While they may not care, & I'm sure they do not, just by virtue of the that they are singling out SeaMonkey tells me that their sniffing, which they probably shouldn't be doing anyhow, is being done incorrectly. So if they can't even sniff correctly, what do you expect them to get right? (BTW, Bank of America, Online Billpay, throws up a message - that you can just ignore, but does allow you to proceed.) Last edited by therube on May 29th, 2015, 9:42 am, edited 1 time in total.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
Fine. However, you problem likely does not have anything to do with OPs. Post wrangler
"Choose between the Food Select Feature or other Functions. If no food or function is chosen, Toast is the default."
Not entirely correct.
And the (SeaMonkey) bug, Bug 1169709 - Site-specific user agent overrides are not applied at all in SeaMonkey 2.38a1 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
So far works with SM 2.33.1: http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ ... but we're waiting for version 2.35 and bugs in 2.38 alpha (Linux version) should be fixed before release. Right? EDIT: Works for your site too: http://vader.joemonster.org/upload/rqb/ ... 5_29_0.png I hope it will be fixed. Some "my" sites needs IE UA. And I can't explain to government dudes that Gecko engine is far more common... Last edited by trolly on May 29th, 2015, 1:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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