[CLUE-Tech] Mozilla and Amazon.com

Bill Gjestvang bill at uncultured.org
Wed Mar 24 08:01:11 MST 2004


David Anselmi said:
> Stephen Lehr wrote:
> [...]
>> I still want to sell books and I'd rather not use MS Windows - any
>> advice about bending Amazon to my will?

> put about:config into your Mozilla location bar.  Scroll down to
> general.useragent.override.  Context menu -> Modify and set it to
> Mozilla/4.0 (MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) which will mimic IE.

> I don't expect this to work for you, but you can try it.  You could
> also  try a different browser like Opera.

Or Konqueror (from KDE).  It has the "Change Browser Identification"
options right in the Tools drop-down menu, along with presets of common
identities.  I've found that pretty handy.  You can then try several
different identities quickly.
-Bill Gjestvang





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