my.yahoo.com works fine in FF on GNU/Linux for me. Just click on the button marked "Continue to My Yahoo! Beta", seems to be some issue with Yahoo in identification of FF 2.x as a supported browser.
On 21/10/2007, आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > ,--- H S Rai writes: > | On trying to access http://my.yahoo.com/ , I was surprised by message > | from Yahoo that your browser (FireFox on Linux) is not supported > | officially. See screen shot: > > | http://hs.raiandrai.com/bg/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/yahoo.png > > | They support firefox on Mac and MSwindows. > > | What could be technical reason for doing so? > > Are you running Iceweasel (on Debian) or Bon Echo (on Gentoo), > hmm... ? If yes, then the website is looking for 'Firefox' in > "User-Agent" HTTP header (sent by the browser) to check whether it's > Firefox . Due to this problem, one is not able to install "Google > Gears" on these browsers. To bypass this, try "User-Agent Switcher" > Firefox addon at: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 . > > | Putting all sites on "Hall of Shame" may not be the solution. > > | -- > | H.S.Rai > > HTH > Ashish Shukla > - -- > Ashish Shukla "Wah Java !!" > आशीष शुक्ल > > weblog: http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
