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Change Firebird useragent from browser
Authored by: DerekButterfield on Dec 12, '03 06:20:51AM

Wish it were that easy. I've complained on many occasions only to be told that as a Mac user I am in a tiny minority and to compound the crime I have the audacity to use a non-standard browser.
Some banks in the UK say there are security considerations, which is a nonsense because they let me access my accounts if I spoof their preferred browser.
Marks & Spencer apparently think my shopping experience should be enhanced whether I like it or not!



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Change Firebird useragent from browser
Authored by: raider on Dec 12, '03 06:37:34PM
I don't deny that fact. But the simple reality is that you still shop there. So they get your $$$ whether they change their browser code or not. If there is a site that doesn't work in non-IE browsers, I just don't use it. I have never had a service or product that I couldn't find elsewhere, using a browser that is not IE.

The funny part is that I am a java/web developer. The system we are developing at work, per the official specs and requirements, is only supposed to support IE. We have never written any code specifically for IE, nor any to specifically check for a browser version. Strangely enough, the system runs BETTER under Mozilla (and mozilla based) browsers than it does in IE.... We even use Mozilla for debugging Javascript code (because it is impossible in IE...).

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