[SOLVED] What happened to the Debian distro Icon

jdkaye · 08-08-2013, 12:50 PM

No one seems to have the Debian logo on their profiles that appear to the left of all posts. We are left with the generic penguin logo in its place. If memory serves, we would put something in the Useragent field of the about:config page of our browser.

It is highly demeaning to Debian users to see Johnny-come-latelies like Mint and Ubuntu proudly displaying their marks while there is not a magic spiral in sight. Can anybody let me know what's going on?
jdk

AlucardZero · 08-08-2013, 01:18 PM

... demeaning?

ps - perhaps this should be in LQ Suggestions & Feedback, not Debian

jdkaye · 08-08-2013, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by AlucardZero

... demeaning?

Tongue placed firmly in cheek.

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ps - perhaps this should be in LQ Suggestions & Feedback, not Debian

If that's a better place then I fully agree. It seemed to be Debian related, hence my choice of forums.
jdk

273 · 08-08-2013, 02:29 PM

I think the fault lies with the Firefox developers or Iceweasel packagers. If you add Debian to your User Agent String then you'll get the icon. I was doing so but since I update my Firefox version every day (I'm using Firefox Nightly from Mozilla) the constant updating of User Agent was getting tiresome.

TobiSGD · 08-08-2013, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by jdkaye

If memory serves, we would put something in the Useragent field of the about:config page of our browser.

Just replaced the Slackware in my user-agent string with Debian to see if it works here.

EDIT: And as you can see it works fine. My user-agent string now is

Code:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:23.0.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0.0/Debian Linux

TobiSGD · 08-08-2013, 02:32 PM

And back to Slackware. Works also. I assume the problem is caused by your user-agent string.

jdkaye · 08-08-2013, 11:34 PM

So my memory isn't so bad after all.

Pretty cool for someone of my age. Anyway, would someone kindly give the the full name of the useragent string. The only "string" variable I have using "useragent" in the title is

Quote:

general.useragent.locale

I some point I did some "housekeeping" and deleted the entry. Thanks to all for your help. Quite useful as always.

jdk

brianL · 08-09-2013, 04:02 AM

Mmm, the method I used to use doesn't seem to work in Firefox 17.0.7ESR:
Open about:config in FF address bar, right click.
New string:

Code:

general.useragent.override

Code:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0/Slackware Linux

Enter all that OK, but doesn't survive a restart of FF. No Slack logo.

TobiSGD · 08-09-2013, 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by brianL

Mmm, the method I used to use doesn't seem to work in Firefox 17.0.7ESR:
Open about:config in FF address bar, right click.
New string:

Code:

general.useragent.override

Code:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0/Slackware Linux

Enter all that OK, but doesn't survive a restart of FF. No Slack logo.

The same procedure I use since about Firefox 4 or a little bit later, works fine here, now on Firefox 23.

ntubski · 08-09-2013, 08:30 AM

I'm using User Agent Switch.

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Originally Posted by brianL

Mmm, the method I used to use doesn't seem to work in Firefox 17.0.7ESR:

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Originally Posted by TobiSGD

The same procedure I use since about Firefox 4 or a little bit later, works fine here, now on Firefox 23.

http://chrispederick.com/work/user-a...help/#override

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Why can the user agent not be overidden in Firefox 17 and later?

This is due to a bug introduced in Firefox 17. This bug will be fixed when Firefox 23 is released.

brianL · 08-09-2013, 08:54 AM

Anyway, I don't think we should be telling the NSA what distros we're running.

edit:
Suddenly, I'm getting the Slack logo. I edited ~/.mozilla/firefox/16a4nkt2.default/prefs.js, put this line in:

Code:

user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0/Slackware Linux");

jdkaye · 08-09-2013, 09:23 AM

Here are the 3 relevant string variables with their current values. I'm trying to incorporate the suggestions made in this thread. (Thanks to all for your patience and help).

Code:

general.useragent.override;Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Debian Linux x86_64; rv:5.0.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0.0  Iceweasel/5.0
general.useragent.switch;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
useragentswitcher.version;0.73

As you can see, no joy so far. I'll now change the value of general.useragent.override to correspond to that of general.useragent.switch and see if that helps.
Thanks again,
jdk

jdkaye · 08-09-2013, 09:31 AM

WTF! Now I see the Debian Logo but only one my most recent post, the one just above this one! Things are getting weird. Now we'll see if this post gets marked with the same logo............
jdk

brianL · 08-09-2013, 09:32 AM

Go here to find out your useragent string:
http://www.whatsmyuseragent.com

Yeah, I see it too. They don't show up right away.

jdkaye · 08-09-2013, 09:34 AM

Yup, it seems to have worked. Thanks to you all for your tireless efforts. It may be all for naught if I can't do my iBanking with these settings. That's what caused me to change them in the first place.
jdk