[clug] YASGIBP (St George again)

[Kim Holburn]

On 2005 Jun 16 at 3:27 PM, Michael James wrote:
> Yet Another St George Internet Banking Post
>
> Probably old news to most, but User Agent Switcher 0.6.6
>  just gave me my best and worst internet banking this year.
>
> Base platform:  Suse9.3,  Firefox 1.0.4,
> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_03-b07)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_03-b07, mixed mode, sharing)
>
> Ran firefox as root and installed User Agent Switcher
> Quit firefox and restarted it as me.
>
> Right clicked on the menubar and chose "Customize".
> Dragged the User Agent icon onto the menubar.
>
> Worst experience yet:
> Pulled down the User Agent Switcher, shuddered and chose
>     Internet Explorer 6 (Windows XP)
> Logged in OK but loading the java app crashed firefox completely.
>
>
> Best yet (worked perfectly)
> Chose Opera.
>
>
> Future experiments,
>  find out what Firefox on MacOSX says (it works)
>  and try that as an even more palatable attribution.
>
> Wishes,
>  a version of User Agent that lets me set
>  what to say to extra special (ly dumb) sites.

GreaseMonkey? http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/

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