[TriLUG] DO-DO Time warner

Jack Hill jackhill at jackhill.us
Mon Aug 15 15:06:54 EDT 2011


I have been got it working in the past on Lucid using Konqueror 
advertising itself as (if I remember correctly) Safari.

Jack

On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Igor Partola wrote:

> I haven't tested this method, but try this:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/
>
> Usually this detection will be done using the User-Agent header. I doubt
> they are doing something more sophisticated than this, like detecting what
> JavaScript features you have, etc.
>
> Igor
>
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:01 PM, James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I was attempting to find out some details of my time-warner cable tv
>> account and clicked on chat!
>>
>> Got the message below:
>> " Minimum Requirements Not Met
>> The Minimum requirements to use the Technical Chat services are:
>>
>>    Windows 98 or higher, with Internet Explorer 5.5+ or Netscape 6.0+
>>    Macintosh OS 10 or higher, with IE 5.0+, Netscape 6.0+ or Safari 1.0+"
>>
>> Any way to access the chat from firefox 5.0 on Ubuntu 10.04???
>>
>> I certainly don't want to start up Windows 98, or ME ;-)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> jcj
>>
>>
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