Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 05/07/08 10:23, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > On 05/06/08 21:57, 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.
> > > In Epiphany 2.20, changing general.useragent.extra.epiphany to
> > > "firefox/2.0.0.14" or "Firefox/2.0.0.14" doesn't help.
> > Here, on my system (sid, epiphany 2.20.3) it works.
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> Interesting.
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> What exactly did you change general.useragent.extra.epiphany to?

I had tried different values and found that any value beginning with 
Firefox/2.[something] works. Just "Firefox" does not work and takes me 
to an error page that says the browser is not supported.

BTW, mine is a 32-bit system.

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