95.20 UserAgent Browser Identification
Some websites refuse connection except from specific browsers. You can generally convince your Mozilla browser to identify itself as something else by adding something like:
to the appropriate prefs.js file. For example, with firefox,
the preferences file is something like
.
Plugins also exist to manage how the browser identifies itself to the server. The plugins will have names relating to user agent switching.
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