[TriLUG] DO-DO Time warner

James Jones jc.jones at tuftux.com
Mon Aug 15 15:12:15 EDT 2011


Thanks to all.

I will try both items.

jcj

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Jack Hill <jackhill at jackhill.us> wrote:
> 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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