Re: Firefox disguise feature needed!

I've got it working. The general.useragent.override string setting to MSIE
worked well as discussed at the link I posted in my previous mail. I just
screwed up something at first.

But here comes another question. What is happening here
that those sites favor only certain commercial browsers?
Are they getting 2c from Microsoft for each blocked 
attempt from Linux/Firfox users to get in? 
Why would they lose potential clients?

Andrei

On Sun, 29 May 2005, Andrei Smirnov wrote:

> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I remember we discussed it ones, and I went to our list's archives, but 
> could not find it. The problem is that some sites appear to block my
> browser on the basis of it's being not MSIE or my OS not being MS-kind.
> One example is: 
> http://farechase.yahoo.com/pages/browsernotsupported.html
> 
> I really need that site now since I'm looking for cheap air-fairs. 
> I found some sites describing how to change Firefox agent string
> (http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2004/04/24/changinguseragent.html), and I 
> tried that, but it did not work. Maybe they actually checking on OS and 
> not just the browser.
> 
> So, could anyone lead me to those sites where the trick is described?
> I really want to disguise as MSIE and Windows XP. Or maybe I miss some 
> other small things, like the string should be exactly with all the spaces 
> and dots etc. And how do I change the OS identification from Linux to MS 
> Windows?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Andrei
> 
> 

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