[NTLUG:Discuss] Faking another Browser.

[Steve Baker]

lee wrote:

> is the override to the user-agent string that you put in your prefs.js 
> file.  your prefs.js is usually found on your system here: 
> ~/.mozilla/[profile-name]/[crypto-stuff]/prefs.js

Yeah!  That's the thing!

Many thanks!

> you'll have to figger out how to exactly manipulate the string to mimic 
> another browser...

Ah...so my next question is - What 'user-agent' string does IE spit out?

Brief research suggests this might work:

user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Microsoft Internet Explorer/4.40.426 (Windows 95)");

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