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   Paul in Houston TX to Paul B. Gallagher   
   Re: Google Search stopped working ~Oct 6   
   13 Oct 25 12:19:06   
   
   From: Paul@Houston.Texas   
      
   Paul B. Gallagher wrote:   
   > Yesterday, I wrote:   
   >   
   >> David E. Ross wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> When I use PrefBar to spoof Firefox, the UA is:   
   >>>     Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:109.0)   
   >>>          Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0   
   >>   
   >> Thanks, that works. The key parameter appears to be the Firefox   
   >> version; I had previously used "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64;   
   >> x64; rv:128) Gecko/20100101 Firefox 108.0," but as soon as I updated   
   >> to "Firefox/115.0" it started working normally.   
   >   
   >   
   > Oops, today that doesn't work anymore. I'm back to ""Our systems have   
   > detected unusual traffic from your computer network. ..."   
   >   
   > I tried spoofing Firefox 128.0, but that didn't help. My current UA for   
   > Google is "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128)   
   > Gecko/20100101 Firefox 128.0," but Google doesn't accept it.   
   >   
   > Any more ideas?   
      
   This still works for me today, 13 Oct 2025:   
   I used David Ross's suggestion and made it strictly for Google:   
   general.useragent.override.www.google.com   
   Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101   
   Firefox/115.0   
      
   Note that FF _MUST_ be 115.0.   
   No zero = does not work.   
   SOME of the rest of the string can be changed if you wanted to.   
      
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