From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 23:55:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080105045537.GA1769@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0801030647k722cfffbr7f54268db8a3cda9@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:47:42AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote
> I don't think it's Yahoo. I think it's Gentoo 32-bit.
>
> My desktop machine is Gentoo 64-bit using 2.0.0.11 and it's working
> perfectly fine.
I wonder if it's because Yahoo is checking for user-agent. They may
allow Firefox, but not "Iceweasel", which is the default branding for
Firefox in Gentoo.
[...snip long involved story about Open Source licencing politics...]
Try adding the line...
www-client/mozilla-firefox -iceweasel
...to /etc/package.use and recompiling Firefox. As a quick-n-dirty, if
you have the "User Agent Switcher" extension installed, try setting your
user agent string to...
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071229 Firefox/2.0.0.11
May do the trick. While we're at it, adding the line...
www-client/mozilla-firefox moznopango
...to /etc/package.use and recompiling Firefox will speed it up. The
tradeoff is that you can't display Chinese/Japanese/Cyrillic text if
your Firefox is set to display English. Apparently, "pango" paints the
text characters dot-by-dot. This makes it more versatile, allowing it
to display multiple character sets at once. But it obviously slows
Firefox down. Your choice.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-05 5:00 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2008-01-03 14:49 ` Albert Hopkins
2008-01-03 19:17 ` Randy Barlow
2008-03-05 14:21 ` cypherstrong
2008-03-05 15:08 ` Mark Knecht
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