Anubis

[Kim]

Nope, haven't touched it yet wanted to see how things was working first and be to fast to jump on the gun.

Reviewing the logs for UA:

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"user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; OS/2 i386) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/5.15.2 Chrome/83.0.4103.122 Safari/537.36 Dooble/2022.10.15"
"user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; OS/2 i386) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/5.15.2 Chrome/83.0.4103.122 Safari/537.36 Dooble/2024.11.17"
"user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; OS/2 i386) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/5.15.2 Chrome/83.0.4103.122 Safari/537.36 Dooble/2025.07.04"
"user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; OS/2 i386) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/5.15.2 Chrome/83.0.4103.122 Safari/537.36 Dooble/2025.11.25"
"user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; OS/2 i386) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/6.2.6 Chrome/94.0.4606.126 Safari/537.36 Dooble/2025.11.25"
"user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0"
"user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0"
"user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0 SeaMonkey/2.35"
"user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 SeaMonkey/2.42.9esr Lightning/4.7.9"
"user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 SeaMonkey/2.42.9esr"
"user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0"
"user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0"
"user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Unknown; OS/2 i386) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/5.15.2 Chrome/83.0.4103.122 Safari/537.36"

[Pete]

Hi All

Just to confirm that Stevens UA line works fine with Seamonkey here.


Regards

Pete

[Dave Yeo]

Nope, haven't touched it yet wanted to see how things was working first and be to fast to jump on the gun.

Well, I'm back to logging in with SeaMonkey, User agent: OS2zilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.23

[Pete]

Hi Dave

Is it possible to set that line as the UA line to use permanently? - I'm finding that I have to reselect it next time I start Seamonkey.


Regards

Pete

[Dave Yeo]

I use user agent switcher to change user agents. Attached, unzip and drag'n'drop the xpi on your browser. Can't remember if it needs a restart. It should show up under Tools, open up the Edit User Agents menu and add the UA. Should work for Firefox too.
Prefbar is another add-on that allows changing user agents.
Or got to about:config, search for general.useragent.override and add it there.
Newer SM allows you to do similar in about:config on a per domain basis. I should ask about the patch that enabled that.

[Dariusz Piatkowski]

Nope, haven't touched it yet wanted to see how things was working first and be to fast to jump on the gun.

Well, I'm back to logging in with SeaMonkey, User agent: OS2zilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.23

So Dave's "trick" UA string works...and yet the regular FF 45.9 one does not...ugh???

Weird b/c I see that showing up in Kim's log already...and yet it fails in the very same way over here...need to dig into this a bit more!

[Dave Yeo]

The real question is why Steven's trick UA works. Tried a couple of others, got Anubis. Tried none, got blocked as a UA is required

[Pete]

Hi Dave

I'm already using UAS - v0.7.3.
The problem is that the selection does not "stick" - next restart of Seamonkey will show the UA set as "Default" ie Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 SeaMonkey/2.42.9esr.
I checked the about:config but general.useragent.override does not exist - until a non-Default UA is used. However, it seems that setting then gets deleted (at app startup?) which, I guess, resets the UA to Default.


Regards

Pete

[Dave Yeo]

I see what you mean. Investigating. BTW, using Lynx's user agent also works, and seems to turn off JS.  Lynx/2.8.5rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 GNUTLS/0.8.12

[Dave Yeo]

Create the file user.js in your profile, and add this line,

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user_pref("general.useragent.override","OS2zilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.23");
If you already have user.js, add the line. On startup the user agent will be set to OS2zilla, check in about:
Should work for Firefox too, untested.
Edit: Since we are using OS/2, I changed to this in user.js,

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user_pref("general.useragent.override","OS2zilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5 x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.23");

[Alfredo Fernández Díaz]

SeaMonkey getting stuck at some Anubis page which won't work in an OS/2 browser... to access an OS/2 forum -- what a way to start the day : (

Anyway, Links/2 2.30 bypassed that right away so I could read this...

Since we are using OS/2, I changed to this in user.js [...]

Didn't want to put anything permanent in user.js so I tried the above with User Agent Switcher, which all this reminded me about and (still?) is in my SeaMonkey -- worked perfectly. Thanks, Dave.

[Alfredo Fernández Díaz]

And an addition of possible interest: following the link to Anubis itself from the '14 years of service' thread, I got the same splash page as the forum, but unlike the one here, it refreshed itself and let me in. Differences: I had switched the UA string by then, and I had JS off, which is my default setting, except for a few websites like os2world.com. Just in case it is of any use for you.

[Pete]

Hi All

@Dave Yes, the user_pref line works here - whether in user.js or alternatively added to prefs.js

@Alfredo Using User Agent Switcher works fine until Seamonkey is closed. On next start the UA line will have reset to the Default which is why the user_pref line is needed.


Regards

Pete

[Dave Yeo]

I'm also finding the UA change to help at other sites. My local weather page quit bitching about my browser, a couple of other sites now let me in instead of hanging at checking your not a bot page.

[Andi B.]

Does a general.useragent.override.os2world.com work? I've in about:config something similar for google -

name -
general.useragent.override.google.com
string -
Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Win64; x64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0