TurboTax.com (Here we go again...)

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Thu Jan 29 21:11:38 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 21:01:58 +0100,
  Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > You can also just set general.useragent.override in about:config and
> > set the alternate useragent header without installing a plugin.
> 
> But that means sites won't count you as a GNU/Linux user in their stats.

I like to have my home machine set to not send a user agent header.
At work we have some stupid apps that thing the useragent header is required
and barf if there isn't one (even though it doesn't if its garbage otherwise).
So at work I usally set it to use the same useragent string google uses.




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