On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 03:25:08AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Eric Dorland wrote: > > > Well I think Google generally does treat the Iceweasel user agent > > > properly. > > > > Not in the case of maps.google.com, where the sidebar cannot be hidden > > in iceweasel, can in firefox. > > > > > > I'm afraid that documenting it in README.Debian won't help desktop users > > > > who just find that this strange "iceweasel" browser we install by > > > > default doesn't work on sites that firefox works on. > > > > > > Could we do it in a more prominent perhaps? > > > > FWIW, I got from the README.Debian to #354622, but I was unable to from > > there figure out how to quickly and easily change the user agent. > > > > A more prominent thing might be a hyperlink directly to the relevant > > about:config setting from the default start page .. or a pre-installed > > user agent switcher that has firefox in it as an option. I think that > > something like that would go a certian distance to making it accessible > > to users, though it would still be a bother. > > I thought about this this week and I've come to agree with Joey's > position. > > We could document exactly how to change the useragent for the user, > but why wouldn't they do this? From there perspective there are all > upsides and no downsides to making the useragent be Firefox, And if > everyone is going to mechanically change it (or want to change it), > then it's not really a good default. > > While I agree that websites shouldn't be abusing useragent strings the > way they do, we can't win this fight on our own and in the mean time > our users are getting broken results that are in our power to fix. > > Thoughts?
We have plenty other browsers that are not Firefox and don't try to claim to be Firefox... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
