On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 07:00:31PM +0000, Mike Pumford wrote: > > >I've encountered https://finance.yahoo.com > > Well this one is wierdly broken. Firefox on Windows (44.0.2) works fine. > Firefox on NetBSD 7 also 44.0.2 gets the mobile site. So this isn't so much > a firefox issue as a firefox NetBSD issue that's very specific to this site. > Have you made any attempt to talk to them about it? > Even more weirdly when I hit that site in Microsoft Edge I get a link > promoting Firefox! > > The google one seems to think I'm browsing with chrome and doesn't offer a > chrome download but apart from that it renders the page fine and has exactly > the same content as the windows version of firefox. > > My firefox builds are: > > Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:44.0) > Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0 > > Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; NetBSD amd64; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 > Firefo > x/44.0 > > Mike >
Yes, that is what I mean - it gets identified as ChromeOS, which results in very unhelpful content (I wanted to download it to run in QEMU). I have tried to contact Yahoo. I feel like these issues would be immediately resolved by masking user agent as a Windows Firefox client, which is considerably more common. In Firefox this can be controlled by creating a string in about:config called general.useragent.override and setting it to your preferred user agent. I carry my NetBSD user agent proudly ;) (and don't run into many such issues), but it may help others. I see there's even site-specific overrides, but I haven't tried to use those.
