[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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OK, Bathory. I'm trying that string but still in a separate general.useragent.override.
Nope! Try again: Nope!
Doh, I'm using this way to set my Slackware FF User-Agent and it always worked. I guess you're closing all open FF sessions before testing.
BTW what is your UA here
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,152
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeebizz
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.
This works. It is quoted, but I don't remember who was kind enough to provide the instructions.
Quote:
"If you're wondering, you can set a single user agent in Pale Moon. In version 28, you have to add the key yourself.
Just go to "about:config", right-click "Preference Name", navigate to "New > String", type "general.useragent.override",
and enter the user agent you want.
E.g., Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Slackware Linux x86_64; rv:4.1) Goanna/20170101 PaleMoon/28.2.2
This is how Pale Moon is set up,
general.useragent.override.linuxquestions.org
is the prerence name.
The rest is the string,
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Slackware Linux x86_64; rv:4.1) Goanna/20170101 PaleMoon/28.2.2
Last edited by cwizardone; 02-02-2020 at 01:10 PM.
this is test, haven't tried to change useragent in a while, this is using the about:config option, I had stopped using it when I started to get web browser not updated warnings, even through the web browser was up to date.
you can also find your useragent from firefox help>troubleshooting information, I copy this as the general.useragent.override string and add Slackware to it in the appropiate place.
Last edited by colorpurple21859; 02-02-2020 at 03:41 PM.
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