Ant wrote:
I have to disable it for YouTube.com so I can rate, get faster web site
speeds, etc. However, I lose its chat feature.
What about the rest of you? Thank you for reading and hopefully
answering. :)
I advertise Firefox, but not Lightning. When Seamonkey added that
capacity, I was grateful, because there were too many sites that demand
Firefox without accounting for the possibility of other projects based
on Firefox. Since that time, I have rarely had to resort to spoofing
to get a site to work correctly.
However, more recently, there are a growing number of sites that are
complaining about older releases of Firefox. Some have been rejecting
anything older than 57, and with the end of life of ESR 52, then there's
a growing number that demand at least 60.
I just noted some things about spoofing in a separate thread, so I'll
try not to repeat that all here. However, with 2.53 releases, those are
now all showing Firefox 60 with Firefox compatibility enabled, and in my
experience, that seems to have abated most of the "unsupported browser"
complaints.
However, Google seems to be doing its own thing. As a general thing, I
try to minimize my interaction with Google, but I have found that at
google.com it's useful to do an about:config entry for
general.useragent.override.google.com that shows a stock Firefox UA
(without reference to Seamonkey) all the time, rather than resorting to
constant tinkering with on-the-fly spoofing through PrefBar, in order to
get the Google search bar to display properly. I also do minimal stuff
at YouTube, and when I'm there, I haven't seen problems, but I don't try
to use chat, either. In fact, I didn't even know that YouTube supports
chat.
However, if it takes spoofing to get google.com to display correctly, it
wouldn't surprise me if they're doing most of the same UI things at
YouTube, and that you may have to spoof to get things to behave.
Although I like the flexibility of PrefBar to do UA switching on the
fly, for any site that I visit frequently (especially if it's something
where I have a tab open for extended use while I have other tabs also
open), I'm inclined to go the route of about:config for something like that.
If you're seeing better performance without advertising compatibility,
but not able to use chat, I'm not sure if there's a really good
work-around. For that, switching back and forth between UAs with PrefBar
might get you functionality, but not simultaneously.
Smith
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