spoof OS when surfing?

[schlesinger]

I'm not sure this is the right place to post this, but here it is...

My banking website has a screen that occurs right after I log in, that says: "We have detected that you are not running an appropriate operating system and setup." I then have to scroll down two pages and press continue to be able to get into my normal page.

I've written scripts that have spoofed a user agent before. Is there any way I can spoof my operating system and pretend to be running Windows? I use Firefox, and have checked about:config. Should I edit some useragent string?

Thanks lots.

[Monicker]

You could get the User Agent Switcher extension.

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

[schlesinger]

That did it, thanks.

[Dr Small]

I was going to suggest that earlier, but I couldn't remember the name of it! :D

[todb]

I'm curious which bank relies on such weak OS detection? User-agent spoofing is pretty trivial...

[stmurray]

My guess is that the bank is creating their website tailored to a specific browser (or are using Web Site development tools that to that). Makes development of the site much easier if you only have to test using one browser......

[Dr Small]

My guess is that the bank is creating their website tailored to a specific browser (or are using Web Site development tools that to that). Makes development of the site much easier if you only have to test using one browser......
Which is utterly ridiculous considering there are alot of Linux users who use Firefox / Opera, etc.

[stmurray]

Sometimes money trumps user satisfaction

[noerrorsfound]

Sometimes money trumps user satisfaction
Correction: Usually

[rudihawk]

Correction: Usually

Correction: Almost always! :)