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Re: Change Iceweasel identification



On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:38 AM, mark <mark@neidorff.com> wrote:
> HI,
>
> I'm running Lenny with Iceweasel 3.0.6. I understand that I can't
> upgrade the browser without upgrading to sid, which I'm not willing
> to do at this time.
>
> Problem that I am having is that when I access yahoo mail, it tells me
> that in order to use the new version of yahoo mail, I have to use
> firefox (there are some other choices, but I don't want to install
> another browser).
>
> How can I have sites identify iceweasel 3.0.6 as firefox so that I can
> access the features of sites that are blocked from me?

In about:config, I have a setting for
'general.useragent.extra.firefox', the value of which I set to
'Firefox/4.0' (I'm using the 4.0 version of Iceweasel).  Perhaps that
setting would help?

Patrick


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