[plug] How do you change the "indentity" of your OS?

[Craig Foster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au 
> [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf Of Steve Boak
> Sent: Saturday, 23 July 2005 10:22 AM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] How do you change the "indentity" of your OS?
> 
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:59 am, Alex Polglaze wrote:
> > > You change its User Agent with User Agent Switcher :)
> >
> > OK I give up.
> >
> > We are running Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 and have trouble wioth some of 
> > the bank sites.
> >
> > So I've looked in Options, nothing
> >
> > Serached Help, nothing.
> >
> > Where do i find User Agent?
> 
> I went to http://www.mozdev.org/projects/active.html and 
> typed 'user agent' in the search box. Click the first link 
> that comes up, which should be "Extension Room :: User Agent 
> Switcher", read what it says, and click on 'install' if you 
> like the look of it. Remember to restart Firefox to enable 
> the plugin, then select your agent type under menu [Tools] 
> [User Agent Switcher] etc.
> 
> Steve
> 
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I've had issues where Java thinks it hasn't been set up for IE properly,
and thus crashes Firefox anytime you go to a java site... It'll also
change what code Java uses, so you'll get an exception if there's any IE
specific hooks.

In the interest of keeping my extentions list a little smaller,
ConfigurationMania also has a similar option.

FWIW It didn't work for my FF 1.0.6, JRE 1.5.0_4, WinXP or Centos
machines

CraigF.