Danny Kile wrote:
Tried to access the following website
https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_4a
Would not run in SeaMonkey no matter what I used for a User Agent. Then
I tried Pale Moon and it would not run with it. I then tried Internet
Explorer and it was a no go also. Then I tried it with Google Chrome and
it works with it. So what is so different about Chrome? How do I get it
to run in SeaMonkey?
Google has its own way of how they want to do things.
For simple interaction, I've found that even the search bar at
google.com has a display quirk. However, if set the User Agent to show
*only* Firefox, the quirk goes away. Thus, in about:config, I have
added an entry:
general.useragent.override.google.com Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0;
Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0
I can't speak for Internet Explorer, but with Mozilla-derived browsers,
it seems that Google doesn't handle things well if the UA string shows
both "Firefox" and the name of the true browser. I've tested with both
Seamonkey and PaleMoon, and I presume the same applies to Waterfox, as
well. If you show *just* Firefox, then that problem goes away.
You could probably get the same effect if you spoof a Chromium browser,
whether Chrome proper, or a Chromium derivative, such as the new Edge,
Opera, etc.
On the other hand, I've seen developer notes that indicate that where
Google is going with YouTube, there's beginning to appear some things
that work properly only in Chromium browsers, and even some stuff that
may not work as well in Firefox, especially versions older than 78.x ESR.
Although you don't' have to abandon Seamonkey, you may want to get used
to the idea that you don't necessarily use Seamonkey for everything
(remember, there's nothing that requires you to commit to exclusive use
of a single browser), and be prepared to use something other than
Seamonkey to interact with certain sites.
Smith
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