re: Spoofing the User Agent [won't solve the problem]
Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 10:04 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Ed wrote:
|There are three solutions
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Again, there is no evidence that Google will be *blocking* IE6. In all likelihood,
they simply won't go out of their way to make pages work with it.
The solution is to stop using a crappy browser and get one from this century.
|to this vicious attack
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Yawn.
|on Windows 9x by Google,
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...an obsolete OS (you can tell by the zero support it gets from its own vendor)
and a browser that M$ itself wishes would just die.
Even on *supported* platforms, IE6 will be EoL'd in June 2010.
...and Mozilla just dropped support for OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
--which was shipped on new units as recently as 3 years ago.
It's considered an OBSOLETE operating system--by its vendor.
|any one of which will enable a Windows 9x browser
|to access a website from which Win9x is banned.
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Again, the work "banned" has not been used by Google.
Speculate all you want,
but attempting to put words in Google's mouth just makes you look foolish.
...and, again, this kindergarten-level stuff is unlikely to be the approach
that the world's most successful company would take.
|[...]IE6 SP1[...]Firefox 2.0.0.20.
|I strongly recommend upgrading to one at least of those versions,
|which in each case is the last version that supports Windows 98/98SE/ME.
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The US Government's computer security experts
recommend AGAINST the use of *any* version of Internet Exploder.
|Internet Explorer 6 (SP1) can be made to spoof the User Agent
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...which won't make it render pages any better nor will it give IE better security.
|[...]any version of Firefox 2 can spoof its User Agent
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I have no idea why this was mentioned in this thread. It's a complete red herring.
...and you missed the **obvious** solution to this situation:
Install this 3rd-party kernel extension for Win9x
http://google.com/search?q=KernelEx
then install Firefox 3.x.
Opera and K-Meleon have also been mentioned as solutions.
An older version Of SeaMonkey (1.x) will also work.
Security patches for it are current, but no more are expected.
Opera or SeaMonkey (both are suites)
can also replace M$'s HORRIBLY INSECURE email client.
Another solution is MEPIS (Linux) antiX,
an out-of-the-box solution that will work on Win98-era hardware.
It *comes* with all the necessary modern software.
You can even try it **without** INSTALLING it. (Everything will run from the CD.)
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