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Add user agent overrides in Pale Moon

Pale Moon is a wonderful web browser. I use it as a daily driver. Some websites think it is outdated and will actually send a page saying, "Your browser is outdated. Please update to a modern browser to use this site." I disagree with their assessment. Additionally, Pale Moon has the ability to change the user agent when talking to domains. You can just make a new entry in the about:config page. general.useragent.override.deviantart.net | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:3.4) Goanna/20170101 PaleMoon/27.6.1
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general.useragent.override.netflix.com | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.9) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.9
Just make a new entry with name: general.useragent.override. domain.com. And just experiment with the user agent string to send until you get it right for the site in question.

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