Testing thread about nothing (I'm trying to diagnose an LQ-related Firefox issue)

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general.useragent.override string Slackware[/QUOTE is what gives the circle with question mark. whenever I remove the Slackware the string disappears thinking about reinstalling firefox and see what happens. don't know if this has anything to do with it but I'm usng the kernels and mesa from testing

Wouldn't it be simpler to try one of the strings suggested by members that have it actually working instead of re-install the whole browser?
And no, neither the kernel nor your graphics system has anything to do with a simple string in your browsers settings.

try again

And see, it works.

checking something

It didn't dawn on me that one had to have the whole string, I just assumed that Just adding "Slackware" would work, but I see it doesn't. Thanks for the help.

It's a full user agent override. It replaces the entire user agent string with your specified value.

Glad you got it working though.

Test with
firefox 6.0a1

icon GET.

test

I give up!!!

3 months and a half and still a penguin

At least I get Beastie, the freebsd icon, when I'm using freebsd :/

Originally Posted by RedNeck-LQ I give up!!! 3 months and a half and still a penguin At least I get Beastie, the freebsd icon, when I'm using freebsd :/

What's your distro?

pclinuxos 2010.12

Try something like what's suggested in this post, just replace "Slackware" with "PCLinuxOS":

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post4323955

test

It work!!!


general.useragent.override: Firefox/4.0/PClinuxOS

Thanks MTK358 and I added a reputation for your helpful hint

Another test. I was concerned about just coping and editing a useragent string from this post. One can find the default useragent string for the browser build that they are using with "about:support" before creating the useragent.override string.