Mozilla Identification

[Aaron Ni]

This is a simple question.  I've looked all over the Mozilla website and checked the readme.txt's three times.  So to be honest and blunt.

Where do you find the options to select the Mozilla browser to identify as Netscape, Mozilla and IE?  

P.S. I know I'm the moderator but I'm still learning so if anyone does a smartass reply with no helpful content expect an edit.

EDIT:  Fixed a typo.

[ June 24, 2002: Message edited by: Aaron-V2.0 ]

[Calum]

i just looked through all the preferences in mozilla and i can't find an option of that type. Try Opera instead.

Edit if you like, but i think this post has worthwhile content.

[Master of Reality]

Konqueror also allows you to change the identification to anything you want.

[choasforages]

same here. konquror is easier to change then mozilla . have you tried the standerd google search. thats how i found out how to axe the popups.

[Pantso]

There are no identification options in Mozilla at least as far as I know. When I want my browser to be identified as IE or Netscape etc I use Opera or Konqueror. They both do the job great  

[Aaron Ni]

Ahh I see, I must have misread some other posts because I was under the impression that Mozilla could change identification.. Heh.

Thanks anyway.

[preacher]

I was doing a little experimentation with Opera and my webserver to see if it truly was able to identify itself as IE, and here are the results.

**.**.*.*** - - [27/Jun/2002:02:53:06 -0400] "GET /style.css HTTP/1.1" 404 317 "http://www.badconnections.net/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Linux 2.4.18-6mdk i686) Opera 6.0  [en]"

So yes, it does indeed attempt to hide itself as MSIE 5, but later on still declares that it is Opera running on linux. So anyone with any education at all wont be fooled.

[Calum]

yes, it does do that, somebody did point that out (oh last year i think) but of course most people looking at those stats and counting them up are not people at all, they are machines and will discard any and all "irrelevant" information, thus logging that particular hit as internet explorer or whatever. (this is another reason why gooseberry clock's hit counter is a pile of pish)