Re: No iceweasel support for google+

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:06:57 -0300, francis picabia wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:36:19 -0300, francis picabia wrote:
>>
>>> I must remember to launch google chrome to use google+, as it does not
>>> support iceweasel.  Is this something expected to change? Perhaps I
>>> simply have a problem searching for articles about google+ in google
>>> search, as I see on rants.org article.
>>
>> What problems are you having?
>>
>> I can't locate (are there any?) the browser requirements for running
>> Google+ so it must be the same as for the rest of the Google apps and
>> Firefox/Iceweasel (version >3.x) has always been supported :-?
> 
> I don't really have a "problem" but if I select the google+ tab I get a
> generic page saying my browser is no longer supported. I'm using
> iceweasel 3.5.16 - I think the current release for Debian squeeze.
> 
> I could trick it into identifying as another browser, but I wondered if
> it will be supported anyway without hacking the identifier.

Yes, try by "faking" the user agent and see if that makes the job. I 
guess that's Google's fault, Iceweasel should work with no problems at 
all (I can even access to Google+ login page using Epiphany from lenny).

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón