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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.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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