[arch-general] Firefox 3.5.7 not support eh !??

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

On 02/01/2010 09:45 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> On 01/31/2010 10:31 PM, Alexander Lam wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Giuseppe Turrisi
>> <giuseppeturrisi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Il 31/01/2010 12:30, Jan de Groot ha scritto:
>>>>
>>>> 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 ;)

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