[wplug] Here's an interesting conundrum

Phil sublime78ska at comcast.net
Sat Feb 28 08:01:40 EST 2004


On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:02:59 -0500, Carl Benedict 
<cbenedic at pittsburghtechs.com> wrote:

> I was going to recommend something similar.  I recently updated my
> girlfriends iMac and she wanted something newer than Netscape 4.7, since
> it was having issues.  I wanted to go with Mozilla, but it only works on
> OS X, so I tried Opera. It lets you set how it identifies itself in the
> HTTP_USER_AGENT requests.  Many pages serve up content based on the
> browser type returned from that string, so it could be a related
> problem.  I don't know if they make Opera for Linux though, but it's
> worth checking out.
>

Opera works on Linux, and it's the same version as on Windows - 7.23.  I 
run into many sites where I have to switch the 'Identify as' preference 
(like Dominion Peoples').  Then it works fine.

Phil

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