Re: Slight OT: Making Firefox behave the same on FreeBSD and windows

On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 11:08 AM Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:

> parv/FreeBSD wrote:
> > Chris Hill wrote:
> > > I had the same issue with a Chase account. It seems that they object to
> > > seeing "FreeBSD" in the user agent string. I used one of the many
> > > plug-ins to change the string for that site, so my machine would appear
> > > to be running Linux. It works well.
> > >
> >
> > Oh, come on now! Are we in the 1990's where one's HTML
> > renders sanely, by design, only in a specific browser?! Fuck.
>
> I have exactly the same situation with chase.com but it isn't a
> rendering problem AFAICS but is a security check failure from the
> chase.com site.  Their site checks UserAgent which is extremely
> egregious given that UserAgent has no security and can be set to
> anything.
>
> The chase.com site refuses to accept a UserAgent that isn't one of
> Linux or Windows (and I presume Mac too) and redirects me to login
> again.  And again.  But switching it to a Linux UserAgent works fine.
> Can login.  Can use the site for everything okay.
>
> I am using "User-Agent Switcher" with Firefox.  It's simple.  It works
> okay for me.
>
> Bob
>

I used to do ths, but it stopped working. Tried it again and have tried
Ubuntu and Linux with no success. It's also annoying that iI can't set it
to only work for Chase. I would prefer to be honest with most web sites.

In any case, how is your User-Agent Switcher so htt Chase accepts it?


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