Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

[Cameron Hutchison <lists@xdna.net>]

Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
>Cameron Hutchison wrote:
>> When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany
>> or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little triangle
>> button in the map sidebar that collapses it. This only happens for me
>> with Debian. On my systems with Ubuntu, google maps works as expected.
>> 
>> Does anyone know why this may be happening?

>It is a problem with the user agent setting. Google maps does not seem 
>to realize that iceweasel and firefox are practically the same. You can 
>work around this by visiting about:config in iceweasel and replacing 
>iceweasel with firefox for the general.useragent.extra.firefox string.

Thank you. I just added "Firefox/2.0.0.14" to the end of the string in
Epiphany and it is working now.

I guess Ubuntu must have changed Epiphany to add the Firefox useragent.

Thanks again.