Ant wrote:
SeaMonkey v2.49.5 uses a very old Gecko web engine based on Firefox v52.
Lots of web sites don't support that old.
At least they claim not to support that old.
I've found that with spoofing, that if I give a site a UA string showing
Gecko 60 or 68 from Seamonkey 2.49.5, I generally don't have problems.
If I have problems, it's far more likely to be other tweaking that I've
done, such blocking stuff with NoScript and/or uBlock Origin, blocking
tracking, refusing third-party cookies, etc.
I'm sure that there's sites out there that really require something
newer than Gecko 52, but I think that they're very few, and I can't
remember seeing them.
Where I've seen sites complaining about Seamonkey 2.49.5/Gecko 52 is
usually coming from scripting that's doing UA sniffing. With NoScript
active, I rarely see any of that, because the scripts never run (and
can't check). There are a handful of sites that won't give me what I
want without enabling the scripting that does sniffing, and for that,
spoofing generally does what I need.
For sites, the issue is generally not that they *can't* handle Gecko 52,
so much as it is that they want users running newer browsers, because
older ones do have known security holes in them. Unfortunately, the
number of Seamonkey users is small enough that at sites doing checking,
the owners don't know (or don't care) that Seamonkey is actively being
maintained, despite showing Gecko 52. I've noted before that I see that
happening most often with sites for financial providers. For good
measure, the people providing help at various sites are likely to demand
specific browsers (and versions), because it streamlines the support
process (again, financial providers are the most aggressive). For
Seamonkey, they don't care that it's a functional equivalent, just that
the different UI layout is enough that they don't want to be bothered
with trying to figure out where a particular setting is.
All that said, I do know that if I'm spoofing, it's definitely possible
that the site really does require something specific to Gecko 60, but
that's on me, and I'm not going to go to the site's support and complain
that things aren't working because of how I'm using Seamonkey. If I'm
having problems, I can either go to a profile where the only tweak I
make is for spoofing, or I can launch Firefox from a profile that
doesn't have a lot of tweaking.
Smith
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