FWIW, I tried changing my user agent string to such ancient values as "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 4.0; Win64; x64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0" and "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0", neither of which reproduced the problem being described.
On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 at 00:49, Bryan Davis <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM Leonid G via Wikitech-l > <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > > Hi Dev and all the others! > > > > I’ve found the last working uaswitcher-1.4.67.xpi version of the file > (from here: > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/versions/), but > Firefox gives me the message: The add-on downloaded from this site could > not be installed because it appears to be corrupt. I even tried to load it > as a temporary add-on – same result. What should I do? > > > > On a clear morning’s mind I’m very skeptical if this tool will solve my > issue. Wikipedia is not actively blocking the use of my browser. Its CSS > seems to have been changed so the pictures and maps do not show up. > > Your User-Agent is old. A lot of the misbehaving web crawlers we are > seeing these days spoof very old Firefox and Chrome User-Agents. I am > 99.9% certain that your traffic is ending up in a low rate limit > bucket tracked at our CDN edge because of the relative age of your web > browser. > > Bryan > -- > Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation > Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA > [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808 > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
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