Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:21 AM, cypherstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The main probleme could be that they use firefox 3 and yahoo are not ready so > they prefer to cancel this navigator whereas accept it anyway > > Iceaweasel it's not a problem, they just add and extra user agent in > about:config (agent ... extra) > > But I have it without any problem with yahoo service on firefox 2 > > That's for the tips on pango any way, I will try it > > This is an old thread. The problem cleared up after a couple of days, maybe Jan. 7th or 8th IIRC. It is no longer a problem here. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
The main probleme could be that they use firefox 3 and yahoo are not ready so they prefer to cancel this navigator whereas accept it anyway Iceaweasel it's not a problem, they just add and extra user agent in about:config (agent ... extra) But I have it without any problem with yahoo service on firefox 2 That's for the tips on pango any way, I will try it Le Thursday 03 January 2008 20:17:04 Randy Barlow, vous avez écrit : > Mark Knecht wrote: > >On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update > > today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her > > machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a very > > boring home page with Yahoo giving me this message: > > > > Why miss out? > > To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a > > more recent browser. > > I use Firefox on a 32-bit system (built from source, not binary) and I > do not see this problem! > > -- > Randy Barlow > http://electronsweatshop.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:47:42AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote >I don't think it's Yahoo. I think it's Gentoo 32-bit. > >My desktop machine is Gentoo 64-bit using 2.0.0.11 and it's working > perfectly fine. I wonder if it's because Yahoo is checking for user-agent. They may allow Firefox, but not "Iceweasel", which is the default branding for Firefox in Gentoo. [...snip long involved story about Open Source licencing politics...] Try adding the line... www-client/mozilla-firefox -iceweasel ...to /etc/package.use and recompiling Firefox. As a quick-n-dirty, if you have the "User Agent Switcher" extension installed, try setting your user agent string to... Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071229 Firefox/2.0.0.11 May do the trick. While we're at it, adding the line... www-client/mozilla-firefox moznopango ...to /etc/package.use and recompiling Firefox will speed it up. The tradeoff is that you can't display Chinese/Japanese/Cyrillic text if your Firefox is set to display English. Apparently, "pango" paints the text characters dot-by-dot. This makes it more versatile, allowing it to display multiple character sets at once. But it obviously slows Firefox down. Your choice. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm not repeating myself I'm an X Window user... I'm an ex-Windows-user -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
Mark Knecht wrote: Yeah, my wife's 32-bit machine is still blocked. My son's 32-bit machine which hasn't been updated yet is still fine as is my 64-bit machine. Logically so far I do think it's a Gentoo problem. If it was specific to some Yahoo server that my house is pointed at it would have been at least consistent on my wife's & son's machines, or so I think. Strange problem. What's the exact URL you have set for your homepage? I'll be able to track down which team to poke if I have that. kashani, works at Yahoo. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
Mark Knecht wrote: > Logically so far I do think it's a Gentoo problem. If it was specific > to some Yahoo server that my house is pointed at it would have been at > least consistent on my wife's & son's machines, or so I think. I already posted this, but I am using the same version of Firefox (and also in Gnome, though I doubt that matters) and don't see this problem. Are you using firefox-bin instead of building it? Any funny settings in about:config? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
On Jan 3, 2008 2:57 PM, Brian Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 06:47:42 -0800 > > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 3, 2008 5:17 AM, Brian Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 03:32:47 -0800 > > > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > >On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update > > > > today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On > > > > her machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a > > > > very boring home page with Yahoo giving me this message: > > > > > > > > Why miss out? > > > > To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade > > > > to a more recent browser. > > > > > > > > Supported browsers include: > > > > Internet Explorer 7 optimized by Yahoo! > > > > Firefox 2.0 > > > > Safari 2.0 > > > > Opera 9 > > > > > > > >Are others seeing the same thing? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mark > > > I just checked for you, and I got the same page using the Firefox 3 > > > trunk. This is why discriminating based on user-agent is a Bad > > > Thing, Yahoo. > > > > > > -- > > > Brian Marshall > > > > > > > Brian, > >Thanks for checking. > > > >I don't think it's Yahoo. I think it's Gentoo 32-bit. > > > >My desktop machine is Gentoo 64-bit using 2.0.0.11 and it's working > > perfectly fine. > > > > - Mark > That's odd then. I just tried again and I'm still blocked, even after > clearing cookies and throwing "Firefox" in my user-agent. > > I'm on 32-bit with a vanilla Firefox 3 from the Mozilla trunk. > Hopefully Yahoo will wise up and realize the concept of "supported > browsers" is absurd. > > -- > Brian Marshall > Yeah, my wife's 32-bit machine is still blocked. My son's 32-bit machine which hasn't been updated yet is still fine as is my 64-bit machine. Logically so far I do think it's a Gentoo problem. If it was specific to some Yahoo server that my house is pointed at it would have been at least consistent on my wife's & son's machines, or so I think. Strange problem. Maybe it's a USE flags issue of some type. I'll do a comparison. Note that today my wife is reporting a few new problems with the Gnome update itself so maybe there is some larger issue. I've done a revdep-rebuild on her machine. I've not finished all of the emerge -DuN world updates yet but it's probably 95% done. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
Mark Knecht wrote: >On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update > today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her > machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a very > boring home page with Yahoo giving me this message: > > Why miss out? > To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a > more recent browser. I use Firefox on a 32-bit system (built from source, not binary) and I do not see this problem! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 05:17 -0800, Brian Marshall wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 03:32:47 -0800 > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > >On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update > > today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her > > machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a very > > boring home page with Yahoo giving me this message: > > > > Why miss out? > > To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a > > more recent browser. > > > > Supported browsers include: > > Internet Explorer 7 optimized by Yahoo! > > Firefox 2.0 > > Safari 2.0 > > Opera 9 > > > >Are others seeing the same thing? > > > > Thanks, > > Mark > I just checked for you, and I got the same page using the Firefox 3 > trunk. This is why discriminating based on user-agent is a Bad Thing, > Yahoo. I think they fixed it. When I checked earlier this morning using Epiphany 2.20 I got the same page, but now the "regular" page shows up. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
On Jan 3, 2008 5:17 AM, Brian Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 03:32:47 -0800 > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > >On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update > > today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her > > machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a very > > boring home page with Yahoo giving me this message: > > > > Why miss out? > > To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a > > more recent browser. > > > > Supported browsers include: > > Internet Explorer 7 optimized by Yahoo! > > Firefox 2.0 > > Safari 2.0 > > Opera 9 > > > >Are others seeing the same thing? > > > > Thanks, > > Mark > I just checked for you, and I got the same page using the Firefox 3 > trunk. This is why discriminating based on user-agent is a Bad Thing, > Yahoo. > > -- > Brian Marshall > Brian, Thanks for checking. I don't think it's Yahoo. I think it's Gentoo 32-bit. My desktop machine is Gentoo 64-bit using 2.0.0.11 and it's working perfectly fine. - Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 03:32:47 -0800 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update > today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her > machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a very > boring home page with Yahoo giving me this message: > > Why miss out? > To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a > more recent browser. > > Supported browsers include: > Internet Explorer 7 optimized by Yahoo! > Firefox 2.0 > Safari 2.0 > Opera 9 > >Are others seeing the same thing? > > Thanks, > Mark I just checked for you, and I got the same page using the Firefox 3 trunk. This is why discriminating based on user-agent is a Bad Thing, Yahoo. -- Brian Marshall signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
Mark Knecht schrieb: > Hi, >On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update > today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her > machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a very > boring home page with Yahoo giving me this message: > > Why miss out? > To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a > more recent browser. > > Supported browsers include: > *Internet Explorer 7 optimized by Yahoo!* > Maybe you need windows for that!! > Firefox 2.0 > Safari 2.0 > Opera 9 > >Are others seeing the same thing? > > Thanks, > Mark > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
Hi, On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a very boring home page with Yahoo giving me this message: Why miss out? To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a more recent browser. Supported browsers include: Internet Explorer 7 optimized by Yahoo! Firefox 2.0 Safari 2.0 Opera 9 Are others seeing the same thing? Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
