spoofing a browser navigator.appCodeName

BrokenArrows

im just messing around with firefox and websites such as http://igx.net/whatami.html which display the information that can be viewed about your computer when browsing websites.

i have found a few tools that allow me to change some of this information to whatever i want but not everything.

example: on the above website the first bit of into returned is appCodeName: Mozilla

which is correct

the second is appName: Netscape

which is also correct.

No i use a firefox plugin called "User agent switcher" which will allow me to change the appName: Netscape field amongst others but i cannot seem to find anything that will allow me to change the appCodeName field.

does anyone know where these settings are stored for firefox. Are they in the registry, a js script file or hard coded. any ideas?

.Bob

type in about:config in the addressbar

then search for
general.useragent.extra.firefox

change the value to whatever, try Googlebot 2.1 to access forums without registering, but a lot of sites only give google bot plain text like forums e.t.c

BrokenArrows

.Bob wrote: »

type in about:config in the addressbar

then search for
general.useragent.extra.firefox

change the value to whatever, try Googlebot 2.1 to access forums without registering, but a lot of sites only give google bot plain text like forums e.t.c

Unfortunately general.useragent.extra.firefox only changes the navigation.userAgent variable in firefox. It does not alter the navigation.appCodeName which is the one im looking for.

Thanks anyway. Anyone else have any idea. Im pretty sure this cannot be done through about:config.

BrokenArrows

with the combined help from .Bob and the guys at bugzilla here is how its done.

add the variable general.useragent.appName in about:config and that changes the appCodeName variable.