However, Gmail is telling me "This browser version is no longer supported.
Please upgrade to a supported browser." :-)

On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 at 06:34, William Avery <willm.av...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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>> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]]                                      irc: bd808
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