Playing the Subway Freshbuzz.com Scrabble Contest on Linux (by Changing the User Agent String)

I wanted to play the Subway Fresh Buzz Scrabble game, but the problem was, the website didn't support Linux. What's happening was, the site was checking for the www browser's user agent string, and compared it to a Windows user agent. So, what I needed to do was to change the user agent string. My original one was this:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1

To change it, I typed "about:config" into the Location bar. This brought up the list of Firefox configurations. Then, right-clicked in the window, and selected New -> String from the menu.

Set the preference name to general.useragent.override. Set the user agent string to something like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1

What I did, to get a user agent string to work with, was copy the original string from the "about:" page (without the config part). Then replaced the Linux part with "Windows NT 6.0" instead.

Then, like magic, the game worked.

Need some playing tips? Read this article.

(This promotional game is based on Scrabble.)