Re: Iceweasel not a fully supported browser for Gmail?
On 8/21/07, Bipin Babu <bipinbabu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Andrew thanks...something I also try to do...but fail.....RTFM. I would
> definitely.
Well, my point was that even if you did RTFM you wouldn't know this.
It's not documented anywhere except the inordinate number of times it
has been asked on this list. Even if it was, most people don't RTFM
before e-mailing the list, so my favored solution is simply to change
the user agent string back to "Firefox/2.0.0.6" but that may not be
possible for any number of reasons.
IMHO it's just more trouble than it's worth.
> Bipin Babu
>
>
> On 8/21/07, Andrew J. Barr < andrew.james.barr@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/21/07, Bipin Babu < bipinbabu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 8/21/07, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <herrsergio@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 2007/8/21, Bernard < bernard.fay@gmail.com>:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > 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?
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > 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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