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

[Alexander Lam]

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
>
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>

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

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Alexander Lam