[SOLVED] Option to disable display of OS and Browser on posts?

XavierP · 08-20-2009, 04:00 PM

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.

XavierP · 08-20-2009, 04:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by salasi

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.)

But we do see the Suse icon so it does work

anomie · 08-20-2009, 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremy

Thanks for the feedback. We introduced this feature in BETA today as a way to help members better understand the environment of the Original Poster.

I like!

Jeebizz · 08-20-2009, 04:08 PM

All I have is:

general.useragent.contentlocale
general.useragent.extra.firefox
general.useragent.locale
general.useragent.security

I am running an older version of Firefox, 2.00.20. Not 3.5

GrapefruiTgirl · 08-20-2009, 04:14 PM

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)

Just prepend your OSname in it.

Sasha

Nevahre · 08-20-2009, 04:15 PM

Tried to modify opera, see if it worls...

Jeebizz · 08-20-2009, 04:16 PM

general.useragent.extra.firefox reports Firefox/2.0.0.20

I changed it to Firefox/2.0.0.20 Slackware

GrapefruiTgirl · 08-20-2009, 04:18 PM

Yay! You have the logo!

Sasha

Jeebizz · 08-20-2009, 04:21 PM

Ah cool!!!!

jschiwal · 08-20-2009, 04:22 PM

This could look bad when I'm at work and a Windows logo is stuck to the message.

johnsfine · 08-20-2009, 04:23 PM

I'm still confused about that useragent editing stuff, as I don't see where it identifies Windows, just the version of firefox.

Is there any test website that will tell you the full id string that it gets from your browser for testing changes to that?

GrapefruiTgirl · 08-20-2009, 04:25 PM

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

brianL · 08-20-2009, 04:32 PM

Have I got it now?
Yes!! Whooopeeee!

Jeebizz · 08-20-2009, 04:33 PM

Yea, but mine seems to have disappeared!

[edit]
and now its back!

repo · 08-20-2009, 04:35 PM

So using the about:config in firefox, I can emulate every distro