[Wolves] Firefox 1.0 Browser

[Tim Humpherson]

Kevan,

Yeah, I already have that Spoofstick.  It is good and helps you to
know where it should come from, ie. Ebay and not some fraudster's
website purporting to be Ebay!

But I must stress that it is not necessarily 100% foolproof, though.

Regards,

Tim.



On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:26:00 +0000, Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:19:55 +0000, Alan Pope <alan.pope at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:03:29 +0000, Tim Humpherson
> > <tim.humpherson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I have heard that there is a plug-in or extension that would 'trick'
> > > certain websites that your browser is an IE6, when in fact, you are
> > > using Firefox 1.0?
> >
> > Indeed there is, and it tricked the dumb national-lottery website the
> > other day. Their site claims they only support certain browsers, yet
> > when i pretended to be using IE6 on XP it worked just fine. I sent
> > them a complaint and just got a standard "we are containually
> > improving blah blah" utter bullshit. It's crap that we have to use
> > these tools but we do..
> >
> > </rant>
> >
> > >
> > > Can anyone tell me where I can find that extension and what is it
> > > called?  I have been looking for that program and got nowhere.
> >
> > It's called "User Agent Switcher"
> >
> > http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/useragentswitcher/
> >
> > > Can anyone assist?
> >
> > Ignore the rant, and I think I have.
> >
> > :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Al.
> >
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> Very nice and very useful.  Shame we have to put up with idiot, stuid
> and lazy web designers.
> 
> Another pretty good Firefox plug-in is Spoofstick.  It's on the
> official Firefox plug-ins site.  It verifies that a site is really the
> site it purports to be.  No doubt there are LUG members who have other
> ways of checking this but, for simpletons like me :-) , it works well
> enough.
> 
> --
> Take care.
> Kevan Farmer
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