Newer Browser Needed for Some Web Sites

Oh, one last thing; I use BoA (financial) and have ZERO problems with their
website accessing all my account info (eg. business, personal, CC's etc).

I -DO- have problems with one site (which really bugs me), it's an iHeart
site:
http://www.iheart.com/#/live/2149/?autoplay=true

If anyone can figure out how to fool iHeart into allowing FF2 (and even 3.0)
into playing I'd appreciate it!

none wrote:

I -DO- have problems with one site (which really bugs me), it's an
iHeart site: http://www.iheart.com/#/live/2149/?autoplay=true

If anyone can figure out how to fool iHeart into allowing FF2
(and even 3.0) into playing I'd appreciate it!

Just FYI - my default browser is Firefox 2.0.0.20.

I posted this earlier in either this thread or some other related
thread. The answer is to use the fire-fox add-on "User Agent Switcher".

It adds an option on the Tools drop-down list that in turn opens up a
list of alternative user-agents. The list contains all manner of
web-devices, from search robots to smart-phones to mac and PC-based
browsers. I frequently set firefox to report that it's "Googlebot 2.1",
but I do find that some sites (web-forums) don't seem to like that one.

I visited your iHeart site with my user-agent set as default, and I got
this page:

http://www.iheart.com/help/not-supported/

I then changed the user-agent to "Googlebot 2.1" and got what appears to
be the main or default page.

Download link for user-agent switcher add-on for firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

Or try this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...gent-switcher/

After it's installed, click on this link:

http://techpatterns.com/downloads/fi...ntswitcher.xml

Then click File, Save Page As, and save that page somewhere.

Then click Tools, Default User Agent, Edit User Agent, Import, then
select the XML file you saved in the previous step. Then click OK.

Then close all firefox windows and restart firefox.

Go to Tools, Default User Agent, and select the user-agent of your
choice. For example, try Browsers - Windows, Firefox 3.0.10 (XP). Any
website you visit will now think you're running Firefox 3.0.10. Your
browser will now appear to other websites as Firefox version 3.0.14 and
you won't get any more nags.

If you want to test it to see if it works, go he

http://whatsmyuseragent.com/

The user-agent switcher has the quirk that it won't keep your custom
user-agent setting after firefox is shut-down. To fix that, open
Firefox, and in the address bar type about:config (enter). Right-click
somewhere in the white space and select "New - Boolean". Enter
useragentswitcher.reset.onclose for the preference name, and select
false for the value. That's it. Now set your desired user-agent and
that setting should stick.

"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
none wrote:

I -DO- have problems with one site (which really bugs me), it's an
iHeart site: http://www.iheart.com/#/live/2149/?autoplay=true

If anyone can figure out how to fool iHeart into allowing FF2
(and even 3.0) into playing I'd appreciate it!

I visited your iHeart site with my user-agent set as default, and I got
this page:

http://www.iheart.com/help/not-supported/

I then changed the user-agent to "Googlebot 2.1" and got what appears to
be the main or default page.


98 Guy, before trying the addon and configuration routine, does iHeart audio
play when you access the page? I manually changed a about:config setting to
make FF2 look like v4. iHeart's page then loads (no 'not supported' redirect
page) BUT the audio will not play! After a short while, maybe a minute, a
screen pop's up saying there was a streaming error. I've tried fooling
iHeart with FF2 on multiple PC's but none ever play iHearts audio. Do you
hear audio?

none wrote:

98 Guy, before trying the addon and configuration routine, does
iHeart audio play when you access the page?

I hear no audio when I bring up their site or try to navigate it.

I have a lot of entries in my HOSTS file that is messing up the
formatting of their main web-page and (probably) the general
functionality of their site. I'm not able to do much when viewing it
using FF 2.

I have Opera 11, and I can get further into the site, but when I try to
play a radio station, I'm geo-blocked (I get "streaming playback error -
the iHeart radio service is only available in the US).

If you have a non-US IP address, then it won't work for you either
(without using a proxy).

Sites like that are heavily advertizing-dependent, and I'm not surprised
that it renders and works so badly on my system.

Interestingly, that site doesn't like any version 3 of Firefox. I have
to set my user-agent to FF4 in order to not get the "not supported"
page.