Re: Iceweasel not a fully supported browser for Gmail?
On 8/21/07, Bipin Babu <bipinbabu@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 8/21/07, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <herrsergio@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2007/8/21, Bernard <bernard.fay@gmail.com>:
> > > Hi,
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> > > It seems now that gmail does not consider Iceweasel as a fully
> > > supported browser?
> > > Does someone know something about it and how it could be fixed?
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> > Hi,
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> > why ? I use Iceweasel and I dont have problems with Gmail, neither
> > with the other Google Labs Applications.
*sigh* This is getting to be a FAQ. Either it needs to be made clear
in some obvious place* that the "fix" for any of this shiny Web 2.0
stuff that doesn't work with Iceweasel is to change the
'general.useragent.extra.firefox' property in 'about:config' to
'Firefox/2.0.0.n' (n being current patchlevel), or the Iceweasel
developers need to revert their string-substitution in that particular
part of the browser. Frankly, I'd prefer the latter because there is
no reason for Iceweasel to identify itself differently than Firefox,
as there are no scenarios where a Web app would need to behave
differently if the browser is Debian's Iceweasel. This would eliminate
the need to change the setting, and it would stop giving a false
impression that there are more differences between Firefox and
Iceweasel then there really are.
* The logical place is /usr/share/doc/iceweasel/README.Debian but I
don't think most people check there before e-mailing the list.
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