[SOLVED] useragent setting to get Debian logo

jdkaye · 12-15-2014, 02:47 PM

I think I've asked this before but failed to note it down. As you can see I no longer have the Debian logo illuminating my posts. For whatever reason my Iceweasel configuration is not supplying the correct value for some variable. My general.useragent.switch is set to Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Debian Linux x86_64; rv:5.0.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0.0/Debian Linux Iceweasel/5.0/Debian Linux. There must be something else that's missing but what?
jdk

Head_on_a_Stick · 12-15-2014, 02:53 PM

Go to about:config (type it in the address bar & press return) then right-click on the list & select New → String and type "general.useragent.override" and modify to your needs.
http://www.howtogeek.com/113439/how-...Speed=noscript

Well, that's how I got my Arch logo to show up, anyway...

jdkaye · 12-16-2014, 01:56 AM

Thanks HoaS but that doesn't appear to work as you can see for yourself.
jdk

astrogeek · 12-16-2014, 02:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdkaye

Thanks HoaS but that doesn't appear to work as you can see for yourself.
jdk

Works for my Slackware and FreeBSD machines with Firefox.

Curious, what do you have in general.useragent.override?

bathory · 12-16-2014, 02:31 AM

Or you can create a ~/.mozilla/firefox/<random characters>/user.js file, containing:

Code:

user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Debian Linux x86_64; rv:5.0.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0.0/Debian Linux Iceweasel/5.0/Debian Linux");

Regards

jdkaye · 12-16-2014, 02:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by astrogeek

Works for my Slackware and FreeBSD machines with Firefox.

Curious, what do you have in general.useragent.override?

The same value that I have for general.useragent.switch which you see in post #1. What value were you expecting?
jdk

jdkaye · 12-16-2014, 02:41 AM

Second time lucky. Maybe it just takes a while to take effect.
Thanks to everyone.
jdk

astrogeek · 12-16-2014, 02:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdkaye

The same value that I have for general.useragent.switch which you see in post #1. What value were you expecting?
jdk

Just trying to be explicit about what was there.

Glad it is now working!

jdkaye · 12-16-2014, 02:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by astrogeek

Just trying to be explicit about what was there.

Glad it is now working!

It's appreciated. Thanks.
jdk

replica9000 · 12-16-2014, 10:30 AM

Testing my logo...

jdkaye · 12-16-2014, 11:43 AM

Looking good, replica.
jdk

jdkaye · 12-18-2014, 12:42 PM

Sorry people but I had to remove the [SOLVED] tag. The "fix" using general.useragent.override is not permanent. The general.useragent.override string is not persistent and disappears (I guess) whenever Iceweasel is shut down.

I'll try bathory's suggestion and create a user.js file for the general.useragent.override and see if that fix is more permanent. I'll report back on how it works and (hopefully) put back the [SOLVED] tag.
jdk

273 · 12-18-2014, 12:58 PM

To muddy the waters, and I know I am "pushing it" I tend to use Firefox on Debian.
I think the answer is to just accept the logo and get on with things(sorry, I am British, it's what I do).

replica9000 · 12-18-2014, 12:59 PM

This worked years ago, but that string doesn't seem to exist for my Firefox now.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...irefox-665401/

jdkaye · 12-18-2014, 02:48 PM

Hats off to bathory. It appears to be working. I'll give it a day or so and if it still does the job, I'll declare this thread solved again.
@273 (sorry I'm British as well so the bulldog will come out on occasion and I get stubborn)

jdk