Re: Firefox, Namoroka, Iceweasel
On Sunday 28 November 2010 05:15:12 Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > This is clearly a bug in a web-site and not the browser, since the > web-site is supposed to be testing for specific functionality, instead > of any specific browsers. Please complain to site owners. I did. Some of the programming of the site, including the browser recognition, is done by another company. I have set the branding flag and still have 3.6.3 in pkgsrc, but 3.6.9 in pkgin. If I upgraded to 3.6.9, it would trash my kde, but I suppose that compiling 3.6.3 from source would not, but I'm probably going to upgrade all packages next month anyway. Pierre -- .i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do .ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga .icu'u la ma'atman.
Re: Firefox, Namoroka, Iceweasel
On 24 November 2010 08:48, Pierre Abbat wrote: > I'm accessing a site which doesn't recognize my Firefox and sends code that > doesn't work. (It does work with Konqueror on my Linux box when I configure > it to pretend to be MSIE, so the problem's not urgent.) I suspect it's > because Firefox sends a browser ID string that doesn't say "Firefox". It ends > with "Namoroka 3.6.3" instead. I'm using 2010Q1. If I upgrade (which I can't > till after the semester), will it be fixed? This is clearly a bug in a web-site and not the browser, since the web-site is supposed to be testing for specific functionality, instead of any specific browsers. Please complain to site owners. Nonetheless, if you require modification of the user-agent string, IIRC, this could be adjusted in Mozilla web-browsers in about:config with the general.useragent.override variable (or some other variables underneath general.useragent, if you don't require complete user-agent string overwriting). C.
Re: Firefox, Namoroka, Iceweasel
On Wed, November 24, 2010 11:48 am, Pierre Abbat wrote: > I'm accessing a site which doesn't recognize my Firefox and sends code > that > doesn't work. (It does work with Konqueror on my Linux box when I > configure > it to pretend to be MSIE, so the problem's not urgent.) I suspect it's > because Firefox sends a browser ID string that doesn't say "Firefox". It > ends > with "Namoroka 3.6.3" instead. I'm using 2010Q1. If I upgrade (which I As other people noted, there's ways around this, including build options. The reason for it is that there are legal restrictions around the Firefox name, which means it can't be redistributed without an agreement with the Firefox Foundation or whatever it is. We'd have to create a legal entity to sign a document etc. etc. I think the NetBSD Foundation has gone through this, but it does not apply to non-NetBSD releases, to my knowledge.
Re: Firefox, Namoroka, Iceweasel
Ed Berger wrote: If you go into /usr/pkgsrc/www/firefox and do "bmake show-options" you'll see the trademark related mozilla-branding options that need to be explicitly set in mk.conf to build it as "firefox". Alternately there are lots of user-agent modifying plugins for Firefox that should do the trick as well.
Re: Firefox, Namoroka, Iceweasel
If you go into /usr/pkgsrc/www/firefox and do "bmake show-options" you'll see the trademark related mozilla-branding options that need to be explicitly set in mk.conf to build it as "firefox".
Firefox, Namoroka, Iceweasel
I'm accessing a site which doesn't recognize my Firefox and sends code that doesn't work. (It does work with Konqueror on my Linux box when I configure it to pretend to be MSIE, so the problem's not urgent.) I suspect it's because Firefox sends a browser ID string that doesn't say "Firefox". It ends with "Namoroka 3.6.3" instead. I'm using 2010Q1. If I upgrade (which I can't till after the semester), will it be fixed? Pierre -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa
