[CLUE-Tech] Mozilla and Amazon.com

[Stephen Lehr]

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 22:34, David Anselmi wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Assuming the problem is their code checking your browser and preventing 
> something (rather than code that doesn't work in Mozilla, period):
> 
> 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.
> 
> This gets me around sites that do checking for IE features and deny 
> others.  But I've had problems on sites that send different javascript 
> based on browser.  Then I get the IE version that doesn't work.
> 
Thanks for various responses.  about:config was entertaining but the
override feature seems to be absent in vers. 1.4.  Amazon support
emailed me that they'd just done a variety of changes to the site and
that my particular woe was just one of several affecting sellers.  A
couple days later I could once again access my transactions using
Mozilla 1.4.
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