From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JB18v-0007J4-Jc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:00:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id m054x4db016229; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 04:59:04 GMT Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.pppoe.ca [206.248.154.182]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id m054sCbl010345 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 04:54:12 GMT X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CADecfkfO+IKIdGdsb2JhbACQDgEwmjw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,247,1196658000"; d="scan'208";a="12305934" Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 04 Jan 2008 23:54:11 -0500 Received: from waltdnes.org ([206.248.130.136]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with SMTP id LFH47611 for ; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:54:11 -0500 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 23:55:37 -0500 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 23:55:37 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version Message-ID: <20080105045537.GA1769@waltdnes.org> References: <5bdc1c8b0801030332q2cc75018sf7f05d962e66c350@mail.gmail.com> <20080103051728.7605642b@zig> <5bdc1c8b0801030647k722cfffbr7f54268db8a3cda9@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0801030647k722cfffbr7f54268db8a3cda9@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 4e7c1446-fa13-4763-9990-c787a7acf921 X-Archives-Hash: 311874b17f6d2d750c3b0ba3816c6371 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. -- Walter Dnes I'm not repeating myself I'm an X Window user... I'm an ex-Windows-user -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list