How to create a new useragent override string in Pale Moon

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How to create a new useragent override string in Pale Moon

Unread post by gracious1 » 2017-12-30, 19:59

Some websites engage in useragent sniffing rather than using other methods to determine if your browser has the proper technology. This can subject Pale Moon users to browser discrimination, but there is a workaround. For these websites, you can create a useragent override. In this tutorial, we will use the randomly chosen site Kroger.com as an example. (Note: You may not need to create a useragent override to access this site on your particular system; this is just to illustrate how one might do it.) Let's go!
  1. Open about:config (Click "I promise to be careful!")
  2. Anywhere in the content are, right-click and select New -> String
  3. In the dialog box, add this as the preference name:

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    general.useragent.override.kroger.com
  4. For the string value, enter one of these choices:
    1. For GNU/Linux, enter

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      Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
    2. For Windows 7, enter

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      Mozilla 5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
    3. For Windows 10, enter

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      Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
    4. For Mac OS X High Sierra, enter

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      Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0 (Pale Moon)
  5. Click "OK", then return to kroger.com and see whether you can now access it.
For other websites, substitute the appropriate domain name.
You may also have to tweak other pieces of the useragent string to make it work for other sites (e.g., change version from "56" to "57"). This has been just one example to get you started.
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Re: How to create a new useragent override string in Pale Moon

Unread post by Moonchild » 2018-01-01, 14:41

Windows 7 is NT 6.1
Also, what string needs to be entered depends highly on why one needs an override to begin with -- you may want to be less specific.
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Re: How to create a new useragent override string in Pale Moon

Unread post by kbhasi » 2018-01-26, 15:38

Moonchild wrote:...you may want to be less specific.
Yep, I was right, I just had to take the preloaded override for WhatsApp Web, and change the OS portion of the user agent to "Linux x86_64" so that they wouldn't ask me to download the client for Windows when I'm on a Linux-based OS.

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Re: How to create a new useragent override string in Pale Moon

Unread post by jgbittar » 2018-12-01, 02:50

Thanks very much to everyone that provided assistance it worked. thanks to all jorge

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