[SOLVED] What do I have to put in my agent string for this site to recognise me as a Slackware user?
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I think adding the words "Slackware Linux" is sufficient.
Not really, even a few years back prior to jumping over to Palemoon from Firefox, it stopped working - Palemoon doesn't work either so I gave up and stopped caring about something so inconsequential anyways.
I do not see mine working what a do to get yours working???? ..
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In Mozilla Firefox, this option is buried on Firefox's about:config page.
To access the about:config page, type about:config into Firefox's address bar
and press Enter.
Type "useragent" into the filter box. Looking for the
"general.useragent.overridepreference", but it probably won't exist on your
system.
To create the preference, right-click on the about:config page, point to New,
and select String.
Name the preference "general.useragent.override".
Enter your desired user agent [ Mine is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11;Slackware Linux x86_64;
rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 ] as the value of the preference.
NOTE: As someone said above, it only shows on your newly created posts or on edited posts. The older posts in the system remain with the generic penguin icon.
There is an add-on called "Custom UserAgent String". This add-on allows you to specify the User Agent string on a site by site basis. As for what needed to be in the User Agent string, probably everyone has already figured it out though, is "Slackware" (case insensitive)
This is my normal UserAgent string:
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0"
This is what is currently listed in Custom User Agent for this site:
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 Slackware"
Last edited by chrisretusn; 02-02-2020 at 03:44 AM.
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