Question

I have build a simple dedicated browser (like Prism) which I use for different sites. Sadly Google+ blocks all browsers, but four. So it blocks mine too.

How can I set the User-Agent in MozEmbed, so I can tell Goolge, I am using Firefox?

    mozembed = gtkmozembed.MozEmbed()
    mozembed.load_url("https://plus.google.com")
    mozembed.show()

Answer 1

Sorry, haven’t tested it, because my Mozilla stuff is inherently broken atm.

One way to set it is to create custom settings file prefs.js and set that directory as profile directory:

profdir = '~/.config/mozilla'
profile = 'foo'
mozembed.set_profile_path(profile_directory, profile)

Now, gtkmozembed should read preferences from ~/.config/mozilla/foo/prefs.js. Example custom user-agent entry:

user_pref("general.useragent.override", 'foo');

Another option would be to overload the gtkmozembed.*_stream functions to inject custom User-Agent header using urllib2.

PS. Try out WebkitGTK+ and gobject-introspection. Mozilla and GTK+ is a bit broken since Gtk+-3.