On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 09:44:35PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > On 02/18/15 09:32, Erling Westenvik wrote: >> The last few months, I've been unable to tag other people when >> commenting on Facebook. I've tried resetting Firefox, disabling >> add-ons, deleting old profiles, reinstalling the browser, and even >> doing a fresh install of Firefox on a new OpenBSD installation. All >> to now avail. >> >> I suspect the user agent setting to be the culprit and have tried >> experimenting with various strings. Some of them enables me to tag >> other people, but messes up other things. >> >> Would anyone using Facebook be so kind as to provide me with a >> working user agent string for Firefox (35.0) ? > > I've noticed this as well lately. It's obviously a change on FB's > side, not on OpenBSD's side (since you have gone back to old versions > to verify the problem still happens on versions I know it didn't). > Curiously, I think I have noticed it impacting my (completely stock) > android phone, too, though that may just mean it is over due for a > reboot.
It's all about the user agent string. When changing from the default: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; OpenBSD amd64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 to: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090702 Firefox/3.5 things started to work as expected. Not that the "working" string is ideal; it just happened to be one I tried and which worked. I'll try to figure out which part(s) of it that matches Facebook's somewhat flaky user agent string detection "algorithm". > I'm not losing any sleep over it, however. I seem to have low > expectations for people coding not-stupidly. Thanks for help/patience/sarcasm, everyone, and sorry for the noise. Erling