On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:10:03PM -0500, Ian Darwin wrote: | The decision to avoid the official "Firefox" name has other | consequences. Our port currently sends this | | User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1) | Gecko/20061101 BonEcho/2.0 | | In contrast, an "official" Linux port sends this: | | User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) | Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 | | You can probably see where this is going... Our users will get "Your | browser is not supported, please use Firefox v1.5 or later" on sites | that use the user-agent string to figure out what browser the user is | on. And therefore the | | Are we allowed to use FireFox in the UA string as long as we don't use | it in the titlebar or Help About, or are the Mozilla folk really that | stuck on things?
If you run into this, and really need a workaround, you can set the
User-Agent string yourself from within firefox :
* Open URL 'about:config'
* Add a key 'general.useragent.override'
* Set this to whatever you want
Et voila, you can be IE, Netscape, Opera or Firefox.
Of course, this is just a workaround - feel free to ignore ;)
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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