From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:49:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1199371785.21218.2.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080103051728.7605642b@zig>
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 05:17 -0800, Brian Marshall wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 03:32:47 -0800
> "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update
> > today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her
> > machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a very
> > boring home page with Yahoo giving me this message:
> >
> > Why miss out?
> > To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a
> > more recent browser.
> >
> > Supported browsers include:
> > Internet Explorer 7 optimized by Yahoo!
> > Firefox 2.0
> > Safari 2.0
> > Opera 9
> >
> > Are others seeing the same thing?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> I just checked for you, and I got the same page using the Firefox 3
> trunk. This is why discriminating based on user-agent is a Bad Thing,
> Yahoo.
I think they fixed it. When I checked earlier this morning using
Epiphany 2.20 I got the same page, but now the "regular" page shows up.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-03 11:32 [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version Mark Knecht
2008-01-03 11:34 ` Justin
2008-01-03 13:17 ` Brian Marshall
2008-01-03 14:47 ` Mark Knecht
[not found] ` <20080103145753.0f060254@zig>
2008-01-04 1:00 ` Mark Knecht
2008-01-04 3:54 ` Randy Barlow
2008-01-04 22:58 ` kashani
2008-01-05 4:55 ` Walter Dnes
2008-01-03 14:49 ` Albert Hopkins [this message]
2008-01-03 19:17 ` Randy Barlow
2008-03-05 14:21 ` cypherstrong
2008-03-05 15:08 ` Mark Knecht
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