[SOLVED] Option to disable display of OS and Browser on posts?
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See this post by GrapefruiTgirl and this one by me to see how it works. Change your user agent from Linux to Slackware and you will get a nice Slack icon.
In the interests of science (!!!), I tried to post from Dillo, but that didn't really work. It seems as if Dillo makes a bit of a mess of the formatting anyway, but it won't stay logged in long enough to actually post (I think when you log in and should get redirected, but don't that breaks the 'stay logged in chain' in some way, but I'm only guessing).
Anyway, at this point Dillo doesn't really seem to work, so I'm posting from konqueror, but its taken so long that the 'browser icon' thing is now dead...shame as was looking forward to seeing what icon Dillo got.(And, with konqueror the fonts look a bit clunky, but you do get a spell checker, which my usual browser of choice, Opera, lacks.)
Doesn't matter which version, they all have user-agent strings; as you posted there, those are parts of yours..
What does general.useragent.extra.firefox say currently for you, what's its value? This is the one I changed, by right-clicking->modify or by double clicking it (-> modify)
Gibson Research / GRC Security website. Sorry John, I haven't their link handy, but Google will take you right to it
Note that Win may/probably has its own methods & means of throwing out user agent info too; the browser alone may not be all there is to a Win OS/user string.
Also, if you're interested, there's the Firefox addon "User Agent Switcher" which will show you your browser user strings, and/or let you make custom ones.
Sasha
Last edited by GrapefruiTgirl; 08-20-2009 at 03:27 PM.
Reason: added stuff.
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