Google window in SeaMonkey

[ButchZ]

Another newbie question:

The Google window seems to be displayed in SM in another design compared to my other browsers. E.g. in Edge the search string is displayed bold in the text snippet below every link. How to achieve the same in SM?

EDIT: The most striking thing about the strange display of the search results is that it is not indicated first (as usual) how many search results Google has found.

[Frank Lion]

The Google window seems to be displayed in SM in another design

A screenshot of the whole page where you're seeing this would help. Just upload it to this - https://postimages.org/ or similar and then link to it here and we'll see what needs to be done.

[ButchZ]

Hi!

In Edge:
https://postimg.cc/V0y9LPwc

In SM:
https://postimg.cc/PvmWCVfv

Thanks,
B.

[TPR75]

The Google window seems to be displayed in SM in another design compared to my other browsers.

Probably it's about User Agent string:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=3071321

Try to change UA:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... #p14804588
... using latest Firefox ESR:

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

It's Google fault and we cant do anything with it... other than tweaking UA

[ButchZ]

@ TPR75: It works! You are a schatz!

Butch

[Bob Fam1]

Thanks.

Can anyone explain in simple terms exactly how to do this? I have SM V 2.53.9.1 and a lot of sites do not accept it. Thanks, Bob.

[TPR75]

Can anyone explain in simple terms exactly how to do this? I have SM V 2.53.9.1 and a lot of sites do not accept it. Thanks, Bob.

First of all user should update to latest SeaMonkey:
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/

Disable default Firefox advertising:
Menu -> Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> HTTP Networking -> in field "User Agent String" choose "Identify as SeaMonkey"
This will stop showing old Firefox 60 UA.

Unfortunately it could be not enough for some websites and user must provide information about UA from newer browser (e.g. Firefox 78; currently latest ESR version). It can be done in "site specific" manner but it's valid per domain and if website is using more than one domain user must set more than one site specific override. With many such websites it could be problematic for unexperienced user. Solution is to make "general override".

To set general override proceed with this steps:
1) in Address Bar type (or paste):

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about:config

2) when you'll see warning (and you should) then click "I accept the risk!"

3) in Search Bar you can type "override" to check if there is requested setting (just to be sure you'll not double anything)

4) if preference is not present already (e.g. you did it in past but forgot about this) then click RMB anywhere and choose: New -> String

5) in window named "New string value" (IMHO it's wrong and there should be "name" in it) enter/paste new preference name:

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general.useragent.override

... and lick OK (or press Enter key). Without domain name it will be "general" (valid for every domain)

6) new window will pop-up "Enter string value" for "general.useragent.override". You can enter/paste here new value:

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

... or do it later. Click OK (press Enter key).
For 32-bit SeaMonkey (if you want) it will be:

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

If you have Windows 7 then you can change "10.0" to "6.1" (but it's not required).

7) now you should see new preference. If there is no new value or you want to change old one then just double click LMB on it and edit as you want.
It should work without restart of SeaMonkey.

To check new User Agent go to: Menu -> Help -> About SeaMonkey -> and you should see i.a. "User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0"

Hint: if you'll copy UA string from here make sure there are no additional spaces before "Mozilla" word.

But remember! Some websites are made with functionality not present in SeaMonkey (yet). Then User Agent override will not help here. Fortunately they're in minor (so far).

[ButchZ]

Hi! Unfortunately, the solution described above (inserting the newest Firexfox version number in useragent) no longer works for me. What else could be done?

(By the way: The most striking thing about the strange display of the search results is that it is not indicated first (as usual) how many search results Google has found.)