[Sussex] Looks like we all need to hit bbc.co.uk with Linux!

John Crowhurst info at johnscomputersupport.co.uk
Sat Nov 3 23:16:15 UTC 2007


On Sat, November 3, 2007 10:07, Andrew Guard wrote:
> On 03/11/2007, Colin Tuckley <colin at tuckley.org> wrote:
>> Andrew Guard wrote:
>>
>> > As most family still use Windows and I have managed to get to use
>> > firefox and not ie (by removing from ie from desktop). Do any of you
>> > know how to adjust their browser user agent string just to look like
>> > it running on Linux?
>>
>> type about:config in the address bar and then search for "useragent"
>
> Can only change browser version and location information, can not
> change from there to say it running on Linux.

Install the add-on "User Agent Switcher" on all the copies of Firefox and
set them to "Sinclair (Spectrum 48K; S; en)" and wait for the reaction
from the BBC :P

-- 
John Crowhurst
John's Computer Support




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