sean bean wrote: >Google is likely telling you your browser is not supported because >Google wants to set all sorts of cookies and location awareness data >in your browser, > Nope.
>which SeaMonkey generally doesn't allow by default > Nope. While I laud your suspicion of megacorporations, your accusations about Google are way off the mark. The truth is much simpler: 1) Google has embraced Web 2.0. 2) Google employees don't know the *basics* of what they are doing. Some time back, Google announced that their efforts going forward would require users to have a browser with good support for HTML 4, CSS, and JavaScript.[1] Most of the headlines of that time specifically mention Internet Exploder 6. Google is sniffing for browsers and blackballing those it deems unworthy of accessing its pages. Again, sniffing is a stupid practice; using it *incorrectly* is monumentally stupid. It is obvious that the Google employees who implemented this are unaware that the **proper** way to sniff is to look for **the HTML rendering engine** in the user agent string (Trident, WebKit, Gecko, Presto, etc.). They are instead showing their ignorance by looking for browser names. Again, this is WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG. >i avoid google as much as humanly possible... > Mostly, I adore Google. Mostly, they "get it" and mostly they get it right (considering all the SEO asswipes who try to game the system). This instance is a failure of management to oversee workers; quite possibly a failure of managers to understand the job better than their underlings. . . [1] As I mentioned, to just do searches, you can turn off most of that stupid shit.[2][3] OTOH, Google Docs, viewing PDFs as Web pages, etc. requires the bells and whistles. [2] When I recently used a Web terminal at the library, I didn't remember any of Google's numerical IP addresses and couldn't access the Google preferences either. What an irritating experience. Using Windoze (with right-click totally disabled by the "experts") gave me a rash as well. Using Internet Exploder also sucked. (M$ tried to imitate Mozilla's tabs--and failed.) [3] I haven't yet found a Userscript that gets rid of the wasted space on results pages down the left side of my narrow screen. >8-| _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
