On 12/15/2019 2:41 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > Windows 7 > Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 > SeaMonkey/2.49.5 > > I cannot view <https://slashdot.org/?desktop=1>. For over a minute, the > status bar shows repeated requests to domains such as > slashdot.org > m.slashdot.org > fonts.googleapis.com > a.fsdn.com > d3tglifpd8whs6.cloudfront.net > fonts.gstatic.com > without ever rendering the page. > > Last night, I had no problem with that Web site. Today, I cannot get > it. Trying SeaMonkey in safe mode did not help. Enabling "Advertise > Firefox compatibility" did not help. > > Although I can get the page while using Internet Explorer 11, spoofing > Internet Explorer 11 in SeaMonkey does not work. Spoofing Chrome or > Opera do not work. > > Is anyone else having this problem? Has anyone found a solution?
Somehow, I had preference variable of the form "general.useragent.override" set for slashdot.org indicating an old version of Opera. When I reset it, the problem disappeared. I am not sure how this happened. Normally, when I set a preference variable to a non-default value, my first choice is to use [Edit > Prefences]. Since that cannot be used to set variables of the form "general.useragent.override", my next choice is to use the file user.js, in which I also insert a comment explaining why I am doing it. My user.js had no such setting! So I am not sure how this got set. In any case, I no longer have the problem. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Duracell batteries are prohibited in my house. They leak and have severely damaged some expensive electronics that I own. Energizer and Eveready batteries are okay. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
