[G4] Safari issue

David DelMonte ddelmonte at mac.com
Sat Jan 24 15:26:23 PST 2004


Unfortunately, spoofing the browser does not work..


On Jan 25, 2004, at 7:02 AM, John Baltutis wrote:

> On 01/24/04,  Kevin Willis <res19rmg at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> 	I have been using Safari as my Browser in Jaguar and I prefer
>> it to Internet Explorer.  However, there are a couple of web sites
>> that Safari doesn't seem to work in.  The main on is for my bank.  I
>> can log in to the site, but the section that has my balance and
>> transactions is blank.  I have to use Explorer to view that site.  Is
>> there any settings I can change or patches to download to make it
>> work?  My other bank site works fine in Safari.  I would like to get
>> away from I.E. and any thing else Microsoft.
>
> You could always try spoofing that web site by choosing another user 
> agent
> (i.e., telling it your using another browser) in Safari. To activate 
> the
> Debug menu, quit Safari, launch the Terminal application, type the 
> below
> command in the Terminal window, and press return:
>
> 	defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
>
> Quit Terminal, launch Safari, and note that Debug is now the last Menu
> item. Select User Agent from that menu and you can select one of these
> emulations:
>
> Mozilla 1.1
> Netscape 7.0, 6.22, and 4.79
> Mac MSIE 5.22
> Windoze MSIE 6.0
> Konqueror 3
>
> To disable the debug menu, type this in Terminal:
>
> 	defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 0
>
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