[email protected] wrote on 2/12/2017 5:53 AM:
flyguy wrote:
This article does not load into Seamonkey, using my normal profile:
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/02/15/85516308.html?pageNumber=166&mi_u=64767442
Other than that link, I have no problems with the New York Times. The
link does load into a clean profile, and also in Chrome and IE 11.
Perhaps this related to a Google problem that began in the last
couple of months. For example, if I type in "pizza" (no quote marks),
I get the usual ad links, a small map showing pizza places in the
area, under which is a list of those places. Clicking on a pizza
place in the list takes me to another tab, which remains blank with
status line showing "done". I used get what I still get in IE and
Chrome: the list of places, and a full map overlaid with box showing
the details of the place I clicked on.
I can get the usual full map, etc, if I click on the "Maps" link the
menu that's under the Google search box at the top.
The issue with Google also seems to be dodgy user-agent sniffing. I can
get it to work by configuring SeaMonkey to present Firefox's user-agent
to Google. The "Advertise Firefox compatibility" is not sufficient; it
seems we need to remove all mention of SeaMonkey from the user-agent
string. To do that:
1. Enter about:config in the address bar
2. Accept the warning
3. In the "Search" bar at the top, enter "useragent"
4. Ensure "general.useragent.site_specific_overrides" is set to "true"
(double-click to toggle if it's not)
5. Right-click > New > String
6. For the name, enter "general.useragent.override.www.google.co.uk" (or
whichever local version of google you get directed to)
7. For the value, enter "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:52.0)
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0"
Optional - If you want, you can work out a user-agent string which more
accurately reflects your OS and the Firefox version corresponding to
your SeaMonkey version, as follows:
1. Enable "Advertise Firefox compatibility" (under Edit > Preferences >
Advanced > Http Networking or "general.useragent.compatMode.firefox" in
about:config)
2. Help > About SeaMonkey
3. Copy the string after "User agent", but without the
"SeaMonkey/<version>" at the end.
4. Set "Advertise Firefox compatibility" back to your preferred setting
(it just needed to be enabled to get the Firefox version into the
user-agent string for step 3).
I used this string from Help, after removing the Seamonkey/2.46:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/49.0 SeaMonkey/2.46
The response is different than it was. When I use "pizza in richland wa"
(no quotes): I get the usual pizza list and a small map, but When I
click on a place or the map, the page reloads with the Google search box
at the top, and only a menu bar under it. The bar has: <back arrow>
Rating Pizza Hours Clear Filters X
The status bar reports "Done".
Better than a blank page, but not quite there :^(
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