[OU] Identification problem

[Stephen Liu]

Hi David,


Tks for your advice.


> As far as I can tell you, adjusting the identification for a site
> preference will not change what you see in Opera's "About Opera"
> information. Are you having an issue where a site is still
> identifying you as Opera, even when you're masking as IE? (Masking is
> the more powerful option) If so, a possible reason that I can think
> of is that the site redirects you to another site and Opera begins to
> identify itself as Opera again. However, I don't know if the identify
> feature actually works that way - it may keep masking if you're being
> redirected from that site.


I checked the identification on following site;

http://www.geocities.com/tony-alicea/detect.html

It always indicated;
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; en)

disregarding whether selecting "Identified as IE' OR "Masked as IE"


I visited some sites.  They only allow MS IE.  Avoiding going back to
MS Windows I must find a solution.


> As for "edit site preferences" being greyed out, take note of which
> websites don't allow you to change it. Is there a pattern? If so,
> what is it? If you're not sure, can you list some of the sites where
> you can't edit the site preferences, so that someone here can
> independently verify?

IIRC typing "about:config" on the address bar of Opera, those items
were grey-out.  I just checked they appear there not grey-out


B.R.
Stephen



> On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:32:12 -0400, Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi folks,
> >
> >
> > Ubuntu 7.04 desktop
> > Opera 9.22
> >
> >
> > I did many times on;
> >
> > Press f12 -> Edit site preferences -> Network -> Use the dropdown
> box
> > at the bottom to change browser identification as "Masked as IE"
> >
> > On Opera
> > address - about opera
> >
> > It always indicates "Opera" disregarding selecting either
> "identified
> > as IE" OR "Masked as IE".
> >
> > Secondly "Edit site preferences" sometime appears. Another time
> > grey-out.
> >
> > Please help.  TIA
> >
> >
> > B.R.
> > Stephen Liu
> >
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