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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 12:49:45
Message-Id: 1842296.PXzrKO0enm@dell_xps
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree by Dale
1 On Saturday 16 Jan 2016 04:15:33 Dale wrote:
2 > Neil Bothwick wrote:
3
4 > > It's better to tell them you're using the Windows version of Firefox or
5 > > Chrome. If you send an IE User_agent, some sites will start messing with
6 > > ActiveX etc.
7 >
8 > That is true but in the cases I used that, it required not only M$ but
9 > also IE. Having it set to Firefox or something would be safer as you
10 > point out, if IE is not also required.
11
12 Well I tried channel5 website with a changed FF useragent string, by adding a
13 general.useragent.override key in about:config
14
15 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
16
17 and it still failed.
18
19 --
20 Regards,
21 Mick

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