useragent on Seamonkey browser for Slackware logo on LQ
 

I've searched and only found matching but obsolete and closed threads.

this topic is solved (will mark it so ASAP)
this thread can also be closed as well.

It's only merely for reference.

HOWTO change the reported browser agent to reflect Slackware GNU/Linux.
Convenient here on LQ and on distrowatch :)


tested on Seamonkey 2.40 and Firefox v45.0

go to here first: online user agent checker

copy and paste Your own current user agent string, have it handy (gvim comes to mind)

navigate to input on the filter to reduce the list a bit

right click and select new->string
input: then it asks for the string, copy and paste Your original string (you saved it didn't you?)
mine was: for firefox
then edit it to something like this:
NOTE:
Having the appropriate correct user agent and a updated browser is a security measure.
Having an wrong user agent can lead to security issues, bot positive and negative.
You have been warned.

Enjoy Slackware logo on our posts :)

Sweet, I was wondering how that Slackware logo got there :hattip:

You could also use an addon like Custom UserAgent String to set the user-agent on a per-site basis.

Okay, all go edit useragent now and go hit distrowatch.com :^)

I just installed the user agent switcher firefox extension to add the Slackware part (because I wasn't sure what the default useragent was meant to be :) ). I am wondering what will happen when firefox is updated though? I guess I would need to change the user agent manually after each firefox upgrade.

Yeah I noticed that, the version numbers appear to be static parts of the string. Although I changed it for linuxquestions.org only (since I just like the Slackware icon on the posts), so I can live with the user-agent string being out of date for one site only :) There may be better addons though.

Or, "roll Your own" as we Slackers do ;)

I know this was kinda tongue in cheek, but distrowatch tracks hits on the individual distro pages, not the useragent of the browsers visiting the site. So changing your useragent won't affect Slackware's rankings.

I see, then we need dial Slackware into our speed dial plugin?
O.o

I frequently visit this thread lately
;)

There is another way to skin this cat.

Both Firefox and SeaMonkey recognize and will use a file, user.js, in .mozilla/firefox/*.default directory for Firefox and .mozilla/seamonkey/*.default directory for SeaMonkey.

For Firefox ESR 45.4.0 (the stable version in Slackware) user.js looks like this:
When there is a version change, click Help then About Firefox to see the version number and simply change the values in user.js (there are two).

The same file for SeaMonkey looks like this:
Those files do not vanish when you install an update but you do need to manually edit the version number.

I would be nice if Slackware embedded the string in the package, but that would violate the unfooled-areound-with rule (like "branding") but that ain't gonna happen methinks.

This is the easiest way I've found to get the logo to appear in LQ.

Hope this helps some.

So, it's easier to put version 45.0 instead of 45.4. Firefox 45.4.0esr has the following useragent string:This way changing of this string will be need only when the major version changes.

Interesting thing would be to extract this string from said browser? :scratch:
therefrom it would be next to trivial to forge the new one accordingly

Thanks for the instructions.

Documentation https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/...-Agent/Firefox claims that number "20100101" is fixed for a Desktop browser, so the string is defined by the version of the browser. For example: