Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:
We are still not sure if the third option dropping Firefox from the UA
is useful. Imho too many sites break without showing Firefox.
Personally I think Firefox plus SeaMonkey show be the default and
"Strict Firefox" the only other choice. For sites disliking both a
domain override via about:config or a ua switcher would probably be best.
I think that's probably the best approach. I've seen too many sites
that are are aggressive in demanding *only* Chrome, Firefox, Safari or
IE. I think IE is getting replaced with Edge in that demand, and
occasionally I see sites that will permit Opera.
Most often, it seems to be financial institutions that behave that way,
and it's my opinion that despite wording, their real agenda is to
minimize loads on tech support people. Thus, if you're interacting with
a site's support people, they say that they will support Firefox only at
v 60 or later. It's not a question of browser capacity, so much as
knowing the exact navigation path to critical settings. Therefore, if
you tell them that you have a Firefox-derived browser with all the
necessary capacities, they'll cut the conversation off with "Firefox or
nothing", because they don't want to deal with the different UI of
another browser. Seamonkey isn't the only one with this problem, but
Pale Moon and Waterfox, as well.
That said, I don't know if users of Chromium-derived browsers have this
kind of issue.
As for spoofing, where we are currently is kind of quandary.
about:config settings are certainly doable, but kind of inflexible,
especially if you have to do them on a per-site basis. I have strong
liking for doing it via extension, but PrefBar is no longer supported
(even though it's still available for download from the developer,
although not listed in the archive of legacy extensions). In Firefox,
I've found several extensions that do spoofing, but those are all
WebExtension, and thus, not usable until the eventual support of
WebExtension in Seamonkey.
Smith
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