Re: pc version of yahoo.com
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 09:53:34 -0700
Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2014, Scott Lair wrote:
>
> > Anyone having trouble getting to yahoo.com pc version in wheezy? I
> > keep getting the mobile version. I have tried updating iceweasel to
> > the backported version, cleared the cache, but still get the mobile
> > version. Even when I click on the pc version on yahoo's site it
> > brings up the mobile version. Chromium works ok, but not iceweasel.
>
> I'm getting it, too, with iceweasel. Chrome not affected. Started
> several days ago. Just switched spontaneously while I was at the main
> yahoo page. Blip! And it changed. I didn't do anything. No other
> sites affected.
>
> Over the past couple of years had it happen with Firefox. With
> Firefox there was an "mobile" option in the settings menu, IIRC, that
> would get set. Why, I don't know. Unsetting it returned yahoo to
> desktop mode. Such a setting doesn't seem to be available in
> iceweasel.
>
> No solutions at this time.
>
>
> B
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>
I installed the user agent switcher, created a new agent, took out the
string at the end of the new user agent regarding Iceweasel and yahoo
then worked fine. Maybe yahoo doesn't like us?
thanks for getting me looking in the right direction.
Scott
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