On 6/19/2019 1:21 AM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:
>
>
> Daniel wrote:
>> David E. Ross wrote on 19/06/2019 2:41 PM:
>>> On 6/18/2019 8:10 PM, Ronnie wrote:
>>>> I've been dealing with this quite a while and wonder if it's just me and
>>>> if not whats the fix... the search box in google with seamonkey is
>>>> hosed... the cursor places itself in a weird position and only allows
>>>> for so many characters to be entered before it starts to be hidden...
>>>
>>> Windows 7
>>> SeaMonkey 2.49.4
>>>
>>> If I use Google, I always use its Advanced Search at
>>> <http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en>. I do not see your
>>> problem there.
>>>
>>> However, I generally search with DuckDuckGo at
>>> <https://duckduckgo.com/>. They do not capture and retain any
>>> information about me and my searches.
>>>
>> I seem to recall, some time ago, someone reporting that, when they used a
>> (Google??) search engine, they were having difficulties seeing the text they
>> entered .... as though, to start, they were entering their text on line 2 of
>> a
>> 1.5 line high text box.
>>
>> Some letters you could work out by their tops, some letters you could not
>> work
>> out!
>>
>> I don't recall what the fix was ... as I also use dickduckgo.com.
>>
>
> Google does incorrect user agent sniffing and return html gobblygock to
> SeaMonkey. You need to set a plain Firefox user agent for this to work.
>
> FRG
>
As I reported earlier in this thread, I do not see this problem at
Google's Advanced Search. I generally disable "Advertise Firefox
compatibility", so my user agent string is
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
SeaMonkey/2.49.4
--
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>
Donald Trump lied his way onto the Forbes 400 richest people list.
<https://tinyurl.com/yx9ebrqz>
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