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Hi,
I did search if such a question existed but could not find any relevant results and I could not decide where to post, so sorry if this is not the place, but it does seem to be newbie question;
Why does it say "Linux" on my posts whereas I have Karmic Koala - 32 bit on the left over there?
I posted the first one using chrome, now this one is from ff. Let's see how it goes.
Edit: Lol it shows nothing from ff, now I checked both ff and chrome settings - could not find where to set the distro, I guess that was not the place to look.
I checked the links you guys gave but did not see anything about any configuration. Can you tell me where it is or how to do it?
Distribution: Slackware (personalized Window Maker), Mint (customized MATE)
Posts: 1,309
Rep:
Now run google-chrome with such command:
Code:
google-chrome --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 Slackware/13.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.342.1 Safari/533.2"
Now User Agent string includes information about your distribution (Slackware 13.0 in the example above).
To make life easier you’d prepare alias to start google-chrome:
Code:
alias chrome='google-chrome --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 Slackware/13.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.342.1 Safari/533.2"'
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