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Miscellaneous => Applications => Topic started by: Aaron Ni on 24 June 2002, 12:18

Title: Mozilla Identification
Post by: Aaron Ni on 24 June 2002, 12:18

This is a simple question.  I've looked all over the Mozilla website and checked the readme.txt's three times.  So to be honest and blunt.

Where do you find the options to select the Mozilla browser to identify as Netscape, Mozilla and IE?  

P.S. I know I'm the moderator but I'm still learning so if anyone does a smartass reply with no helpful content expect an edit.

EDIT:  Fixed a typo.

[ June 24, 2002: Message edited by: Aaron-V2.0 ]

Title: Mozilla Identification
Post by: Calum on 24 June 2002, 13:24

i just looked through all the preferences in mozilla and i can't find an option of that type. Try Opera instead.

Edit if you like, but i think this post has worthwhile content.

Title: Mozilla Identification
Post by: Master of Reality on 24 June 2002, 17:24

Konqueror also allows you to change the identification to anything you want.

Title: Mozilla Identification
Post by: choasforages on 24 June 2002, 19:32

same here. konquror is easier to change then mozilla . have you tried the standerd google search. thats how i found out how to axe the popups.

Title: Mozilla Identification
Post by: Pantso on 25 June 2002, 03:34

There are no identification options in Mozilla at least as far as I know. When I want my browser to be identified as IE or Netscape etc I use Opera or Konqueror. They both do the job great  ;)

Title: Mozilla Identification
Post by: Aaron Ni on 25 June 2002, 06:22

Ahh I see, I must have misread some other posts because I was under the impression that Mozilla could change identification.. Heh.

Thanks anyway.

Title: Mozilla Identification
Post by: preacher on 27 June 2002, 12:48

I was doing a little experimentation with Opera and my webserver to see if it truly was able to identify itself as IE, and here are the results.

**.**.*.*** - - [27/Jun/2002:02:53:06 -0400] "GET /style.css HTTP/1.1" 404 317 "http://www.badconnections.net/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Linux 2.4.18-6mdk i686) Opera 6.0  [en]"

So yes, it does indeed attempt to hide itself as MSIE 5, but later on still declares that it is Opera running on linux. So anyone with any education at all wont be fooled.

Title: Mozilla Identification
Post by: Calum on 27 June 2002, 14:42

yes, it does do that, somebody did point that out (oh last year i think) but of course most people looking at those stats and counting them up are not people at all, they are machines and will discard any and all "irrelevant" information, thus logging that particular hit as internet explorer or whatever. (this is another reason why gooseberry clock's hit counter is a pile of pish)