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Nilesh Govindarajan

31 Jan 2010 31 Jan '10

2:28 p.m.

Something is seriously funny going on here with FF 3.5.7 (Shiretoko). I'm using it from the arch repos, but on visiting Google Help or Orkut, it says Browser not supported ? And the supported browser list says FF 1.5+ Something is wrong with the arch build ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Adminstrator www.itech7.com

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Jan de Groot

31 Jan 31 Jan

2:30 p.m.

On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 16:58 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

Something is seriously funny going on here with FF 3.5.7 (Shiretoko).

I'm using it from the arch repos, but on visiting Google Help or Orkut, it says Browser not supported ?

And the supported browser list says FF 1.5+

Something is wrong with the arch build ?

There's nothing wrong with our firefox package, it's buggy browser detection done by these websites. You might want to change the user agent string through about:config to get Firefox in the name. Websites with browser detection like this are plain stupid, you should complain about it and advise them to check for a gecko engine version.

Giuseppe Turrisi

2:42 p.m.

Il 31/01/2010 12:30, Jan de Groot ha scritto:

On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 16:58 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

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Something is seriously funny going on here with FF 3.5.7 (Shiretoko).

I'm using it from the arch repos, but on visiting Google Help or Orkut, it says Browser not supported ?

And the supported browser list says FF 1.5+

Something is wrong with the arch build ?

There's nothing wrong with our firefox package, it's buggy browser detection done by these websites. You might want to change the user agent string through about:config to get Firefox in the name.

Websites with browser detection like this are plain stupid, you should complain about it and advise them to check for a gecko engine version.

you can also use an add-ons like this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 -- Il "Software Libero" è una questione di libertà, non di prezzo.

Alexander Lam

8:01 p.m.

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Giuseppe Turrisi wrote:

Il 31/01/2010 12:30, Jan de Groot ha scritto:

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On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 16:58 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

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Something is seriously funny going on here with FF 3.5.7 (Shiretoko).

I'm using it from the arch repos, but on visiting Google Help or Orkut, it says Browser not supported ?

And the supported browser list says FF 1.5+

Something is wrong with the arch build ?

There's nothing wrong with our firefox package, it's buggy browser detection done by these websites. You might want to change the user agent string through about:config to get Firefox in the name.

Websites with browser detection like this are plain stupid, you should complain about it and advise them to check for a gecko engine version.

you can also use an add-ons like this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

-- Il "Software Libero" è una questione di libertà, non di prezzo.

or you could go into the Firefox config (URL: about:config) and change the value of general.useragent.extra.firefox to Firefox/3.5.7 -- Alexander Lam

Nilesh Govindarajan

1 Feb 1 Feb

7:15 a.m.

On 01/31/2010 10:31 PM, Alexander Lam wrote:

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Giuseppe Turrisi wrote:

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Il 31/01/2010 12:30, Jan de Groot ha scritto:

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On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 16:58 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

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Something is seriously funny going on here with FF 3.5.7 (Shiretoko).

I'm using it from the arch repos, but on visiting Google Help or Orkut, it says Browser not supported ?

And the supported browser list says FF 1.5+

Something is wrong with the arch build ?

There's nothing wrong with our firefox package, it's buggy browser detection done by these websites. You might want to change the user agent string through about:config to get Firefox in the name.

Websites with browser detection like this are plain stupid, you should complain about it and advise them to check for a gecko engine version.

you can also use an add-ons like this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

-- Il "Software Libero" è una questione di libertà, non di prezzo.

or you could go into the Firefox config (URL: about:config) and change the value of general.useragent.extra.firefox to Firefox/3.5.7

I changed it using the addon. I could also do that, but to be on the safer side... I already had to install all my addons and themes due to some similar thing. So not taking risk again :D -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Adminstrator www.itech7.com

Nilesh Govindarajan

8:25 a.m.

On 02/01/2010 09:45 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

On 01/31/2010 10:31 PM, Alexander Lam wrote:

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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Giuseppe Turrisi wrote:

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Il 31/01/2010 12:30, Jan de Groot ha scritto:

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On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 16:58 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

...
Something is seriously funny going on here with FF 3.5.7 (Shiretoko).

I'm using it from the arch repos, but on visiting Google Help or Orkut, it says Browser not supported ?

And the supported browser list says FF 1.5+

Something is wrong with the arch build ?

There's nothing wrong with our firefox package, it's buggy browser detection done by these websites. You might want to change the user agent string through about:config to get Firefox in the name.

Websites with browser detection like this are plain stupid, you should complain about it and advise them to check for a gecko engine version.

you can also use an add-ons like this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

-- Il "Software Libero" è una questione di libertà, non di prezzo.

or you could go into the Firefox config (URL: about:config) and change the value of general.useragent.extra.firefox to Firefox/3.5.7

I changed it using the addon. I could also do that, but to be on the safer side... I already had to install all my addons and themes due to some similar thing. So not taking risk again :D

Eh. I cannot keep on switching the User Agent every time I start firefox. So about:config :D ;) -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Adminstrator www.itech7.com

Brendan Long

8:25 a.m.

On 01/31/2010 10:25 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

On 02/01/2010 09:45 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

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On 01/31/2010 10:31 PM, Alexander Lam wrote:

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Eh. I cannot keep on switching the User Agent every time I start firefox. So about:config :D ;)

The about:config way will also make your Firefox-ing faster, since it won't have to load the addon every time it starts.

Nicklas Widlund Bjurman

2:07 p.m.

If you go to wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox there is a link to the forum with the caption firebrand, go to the third page of the forum and copy the updated script and run it in sudo(when firefox is not running). This will rebrand your firefox completely to firefox. Best regards Nicklas W Bjurman On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Brendan Long wrote:

On 01/31/2010 10:25 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

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On 02/01/2010 09:45 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

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On 01/31/2010 10:31 PM, Alexander Lam wrote:

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[snip]

Eh. I cannot keep on switching the User Agent every time I start firefox. So about:config :D ;)

The about:config way will also make your Firefox-ing faster, since it won't have to load the addon every time it starts.

Ionut Biru

2:14 p.m.

On 02/01/2010 07:25 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

Eh. I cannot keep on switching the User Agent every time I start firefox. So about:config :D ;)

don't open after a while reporting that firefox is identifying as other version/name [1] [1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18033 [/end joke] -- Ionut

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