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Re: Iceweasel not a fully supported browser for Gmail?

From: KS <lists04(at)fastmail.fm>
Date: Tue Aug 21 2007 - 19:29:18 EDT

Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> On 8/21/07, Bipin Babu <bipinbabu@gmail.com> wrote:

>>
>>
>> On 8/21/07, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés  wrote:
>>>  2007/8/21, Bernard :
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> It seems now that gmail does not consider Iceweasel as a fully
>>>> supported browser?
>>>> Does someone know something about it and how it could be fixed?
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> why ?  I use Iceweasel and I dont have problems with Gmail, neither
>>> with the other Google Labs Applications.

>
> *sigh* This is getting to be a FAQ. Either it needs to be made clear
> in some obvious place* that the "fix" for any of this shiny Web 2.0
> stuff that doesn't work with Iceweasel is to change the
> 'general.useragent.extra.firefox' property in 'about:config' to
> 'Firefox/2.0.0.n' (n being current patchlevel), or the Iceweasel
> developers need to revert their string-substitution in that particular
> part of the browser. Frankly, I'd prefer the latter because there is
> no reason for Iceweasel to identify itself differently than Firefox,
> as there are no scenarios where a Web app would need to behave
> differently if the browser is Debian's Iceweasel. This would eliminate
> the need to change the setting, and it would stop giving a false
> impression that there are more differences between Firefox and
> Iceweasel then there really are.
>
> * The logical place is /usr/share/doc/iceweasel/README.Debian but I
> don't think most people check there before e-mailing the list.
>

With neither Debian nor Mozilla changing their stance Iceweasel's UA will just have to make do without the Firefox string. And the explanation is already there as the first FAQ item in README.Debian.

The disadvantage of manually changing the UA is that things depending upon the version number e.g. extensions, themes, etc. might not work as the user set property does not automatically update with upgrades.

/KS

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