[conspire] ... bank doesn't like Iceweasel

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu):

> But they don't *know* what browser one is using - they just (mostly)
> "believe" what the browser tells them.

I tend to have User-Agent set to be reported as 'W3C standards are
important.  Stop fucking obsessing over user-agent already.' for reasons
Karsten Self suggested:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Web/user-agent-string.html
(The profanity tends to get the attention of people analysing log files, 
which once in a blue moon makes someone at the server end laugh and
think.)

> >   $ . ./firefox
> >   bash: .: ./firefox: cannot execute binary file
> I addressed that separately ... ah, and *there* (above) the text
> didn't get mangled ... thought that was in fact what you'd
> done/attempted.

Yeah, I was _wondering_ why Paul was trying to source a binary.  ;->

> Standards are good.
> https://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
> Annoys me when sites don't work with lynx - if they don't work with
> lynx, they typically suck on the accessibility front, and effectively lock
> many users out.

You'll note the 'Best viewed with Lynx' image on the front page of 
linuxmafia.com.  (Once in a blue moon, I get slightly quizzical fan mail
over that being not just a GIF but an animated one at that.)