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by JoshTriplett 3468 days ago
> Shame that it still requires spoofing the user agent. I would rather not fiddle around with that whenever I log in or out of Netflix,

Several Firefox extensions allow you to easily switch the User-Agent, and even set a per-site User-Agent string, so that you always use a given User-Agent for a given site.

> but would also like to send actual information to show that Firefox is being used..

If you really care, you could experiment with the accepted User-Agent strings, and see if you can add a "really Firefox" comment or similar without losing access.