[gentoo-user] user agent switcher - automatic

[gentoo-user] user agent switcher - automatic

[Joseph]

Is there a plug-in for Firefox like "user agent switcher" that would
automatically switch the agent whenever I fist certain web-page?
If I remember correctly there was one switcher like this for Mozilla but
in Firefox it works differently.

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[gentoo-user] Re: user agent switcher - automatic

[Harm Geerts]

On Monday 13 February 2006 19:03, Joseph wrote:
> Is there a plug-in for Firefox like "user agent switcher" that would
> automatically switch the agent whenever I fist certain web-page?
> If I remember correctly there was one switcher like this for Mozilla but
> in Firefox it works differently.

Different in what way?

http://chrispederick.com/work/useragentswitcher/
This plugin has the "per site preference" on it's todo list.

http://chrispederick.com/work/useragentswitcher/documentation/faq/#reset
And if you ment by "different" that it doesn't remember the last used UA you 
should read that link.

I'm not aware of any other plugins that change the UA
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: user agent switcher - automatic

[Joseph]

I remember there was some kind of user agent for Mozilla (before
firefox) that worked per url basis.

Anyhow, the current user agent doesn't help me.  I can seem to fool
Canada Post web-loging screen with Firefox - user agent (it display
log-in screen) but when I try to create an account it'll not the spoof.
Can anybody try it:
http://www.canadapost.ca/business/obc/default-e.asp?sblid=obc
There is a link on the right: "New user... click here"

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> 
> Different in what way?
> 
> http://chrispederick.com/work/useragentswitcher/
> This plugin has the "per site preference" on it's todo list.
> 
> http://chrispederick.com/work/useragentswitcher/documentation/faq/#reset
> And if you ment by "different" that it doesn't remember the last used UA you 
> should read that link.
> 
> I'm not aware of any other plugins that change the UA

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[gentoo-user] Re: user agent switcher - automatic

[Harm Geerts]

On Monday 13 February 2006 20:56, Joseph wrote:
> I remember there was some kind of user agent for Mozilla (before
> firefox) that worked per url basis.
>
> Anyhow, the current user agent doesn't help me.  I can seem to fool
> Canada Post web-loging screen with Firefox - user agent (it display
> log-in screen) but when I try to create an account it'll not the spoof.
> Can anybody try it:
> http://www.canadapost.ca/business/obc/default-e.asp?sblid=obc
> There is a link on the right: "New user... click here"

As soon as the login page finishes loading I get redirected to a 404 page, I 
don't even get the chance to do anything...

You really should send an email to them about it and let them know they're 
missing (give or take) 10% of potential customers by filtering firefox/gecko 
browsers.

With the browser requirements they have I'll never be able to register...
Their world stops with IE and netscape, IE obviously doesn't run native on 
linux, and netscape is masked for amd64.

webdevelopment, it's a dirty business :-)
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[gentoo-user] Re: user agent switcher - automatic

[Mick]

Harm Geerts wrote:

> On Monday 13 February 2006 20:56, Joseph wrote:
>> I remember there was some kind of user agent for Mozilla (before
>> firefox) that worked per url basis.
>>
>> Anyhow, the current user agent doesn't help me.  I can seem to fool
>> Canada Post web-loging screen with Firefox - user agent (it display
>> log-in screen) but when I try to create an account it'll not the spoof.
>> Can anybody try it:
>> http://www.canadapost.ca/business/obc/default-e.asp?sblid=obc
>> There is a link on the right: "New user... click here"
> 
> As soon as the login page finishes loading I get redirected to a 404 page,
> I don't even get the chance to do anything...
> 
> You really should send an email to them about it and let them know they're
> missing (give or take) 10% of potential customers by filtering
> firefox/gecko browsers.
> 
> With the browser requirements they have I'll never be able to register...
> Their world stops with IE and netscape, IE obviously doesn't run native on
> linux, and netscape is masked for amd64.
> 
> webdevelopment, it's a dirty business :-)

Their server sends a test cookie which discriminates against decent
browsers!  Firefox won't play.  Opera falls apart irrespective of how I set
it to identify itself.  The same happens with Konqueror in the default user
agent setting, but it logs in happily in the IE6 setting.  Some bright
spark has written 311 lines of code in a script which actively
discriminates against most browsers & OS's out there.

Some web-developers or businesses are concerned that they provide an
identical web presence to all visitors for marketing/corporate identity
purposes.  A deformed/malfunctioning website is understandably not
acceptable for them.  Lazy wysiwyg web designers will not spend time to
trim their code for most browsers to be able to show their content as
intended.  On the other hand one can end up chasing their tail if every
browser invented has to show the same content.  There's bound to be some
differences.

I understand that Google now discriminates against websites which . . .
discriminate against particular browsers.  IE and their wysiwyg HTML
editing products have cause a lot of bad code out there and it will take
some time to people to catch up and clean their code.  Until then COMPLAIN!
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[gentoo-user] Open Office 2.01 US Intl KB missing single & double quote characters.

[Dave Jones]

Hallo,

I'm running a compiled from source Open Office 2.01 (stable branch), and
am having problems getting Open Office to accept input single and double
quote characters.

I have CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" and
LINGUAS="en en_GB" in my /etc/make.conf  Nothing startling there.

In my /etc/xorg.conf I have the following entries for my keyboard:

Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
Option          "XkbLayout"     "us_intl"

Being an old-fashioned arch Brit I have set up OO to default to British
English. However, I live in Europe, so I use a Logitech Cordless Desktop
Pro US International keyboard, set to US International under KDE 3.4.3.

I do not use UTF-8 for character encoding, but default to ISO-8859-15,
to allow me to use the 'special' accented characters and the Euro sign.

OO does not recognise either single quote (') or double quote ("), but
correctly handles the Euro sign (€) and (composed) accented characters
such as áàéèíìóòöuúù.

I tried setting OO to US English, but this did not resolve the problem;
OO continued to stubbornly ignore both single and double quotes.

Normally in 'US International' mode, both single and double quotes are
produced using the quote key and a space. Other applications seem to
handle these quote characters correctly using my current keyboard set
up.  Unfortunately, OO totally ignores these keystrokes.

The only way I can persuade OO to enter a single quote is to use the
Alt-Gr key and '. So far, I cannot produce a double quote " in OO
documents without having to resort to cut and paste.

Has anyone else encountered this problem , or better still, have a
work-round or solution for it?

Thank you in advance for any help or advice you may be able to give.

Cheers, Dave.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: user agent switcher - automatic

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:19:10 +0000, Mick wrote:

> Their server sends a test cookie which discriminates against decent
> browsers!  Firefox won't play.  Opera falls apart irrespective of how I
> set it to identify itself.  The same happens with Konqueror in the
> default user agent setting, but it logs in happily in the IE6 setting.

Konqueror can have per-site user-agent settings.


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