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

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

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

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