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Extension updates and UA spoofers

Unread post by Moonchild » 2016-10-25, 11:18

Looking over our logs, I noticed an issue with some of our users, so I'll state this clearly here:

If you use a user-agent spoofing extension, it is possible that your extension updates will be blocked by our update server if it detects an incorrect/fake/non-Pale Moon user-agent knocking at its door. This means that you will not get updates to your extensions as long as you spoof the user-agent to be something different than what it is supposed to be. It's also possible you will be sent an incompatible update, which may break your browser.

Using a user-agent spoofer is a risk for accessibility on many sites on the web, and can and will interfere with services, as this here demonstrates. I will likely also interfere with application updates of the browser itself, so be extremely careful when and where you employ this kind of extension, and disable automatic updates if you do!
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Re: Extension updates and UA spoofers

Unread post by New Tobin Paradigm » 2016-10-25, 12:23

Seeing as we have Site Specific User Agent Overrides.. Globally changing your user agent should not be required to deal with stubborn sites..

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