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Why do websites see my firefox browser as a safari browser?

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jwd8888
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I cannot login to some of my accounts because they see my firefox browser as a safari 9.0 browser. I have a PC running windows 7. What's up?

I cannot login to some of my accounts because they see my firefox browser as a safari 9.0 browser. I have a PC running windows 7. What's up?

Chosen solution

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-reset-default-user-agent-firefox

http://www.howtogeek.com/113439/how-to-change-your-browsers-user-agent-without-installing-any-extensions/

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FredMcD
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Chosen Solution

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-reset-default-user-agent-firefox

http://www.howtogeek.com/113439/how-to-change-your-browsers-user-agent-without-installing-any-extensions/

FredMcD
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Your user agent reports; User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_3) AppleWebKit/601.4.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.3 Safari/601.4.4