no...@nonospam.org wrote:
At the bottom of the article at
http://feedback.weather.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2355405-why-do-i-need-to-update-my-browser?=twc-older-browser-overlay
there is a link to the organization behind this:
https://browser-update.org/update.html
They only recognize four browsers as being "up to date":
Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Edge.
Has anyone from the SeaMonkey development team told these folks that
SeaMonkey is just a variation of Firefox? It seems to me that the
recognition of that fact is central to resolving this issue, not only
with weather.com but also with other sites that object to SeaMonkey.
John
That must stink for Internet Explorer users. =-O
The SeaMonkey development team added the "Advertise Firefox
compatibility" preference to Edit > Preferences > Advanced > HTTP
Networking many versions ago. As I understand it, to mitigate these
problems.
SeaMonkey 2.40 advertises itself as Firefox 43 compatible. If Firefox 43
works, and Firefox 38 ESR work then SeaMonkey 2.40 should also work.
The new Brave and Vivaldi browsers both display weather.com without a
problem.
Vivaldi's UA string is, Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64)
AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.94 Safari/537.36
Vivaldi/1.1.453.52. If they can sniff Chrome out of that they certainly
should be able to sniff Firefox from SeaMonkey's UA string.
It works in my SeaMonkey 2.46a1 Nightly development version. Mozilla/5.0
(X11; Linux x86_64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 SeaMonkey/2.46a1
Quoting Ant from his second post in the thread.
I was able to get rid of it in my SM v2.40 (default UA).
He did not explain what (default UA) meant. Did setting it to the
default fix it? The default being Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:43.0)
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0 SeaMonkey/2.40?
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