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Do you know what user agent you are using in mint?
Semme, Sorry I don't know how to set the image to display.
puppy linux settings -- odd behavior with yahoo, sfs file
Semme, I see from the address that you are using in.yahoo.com. I went there and everything is fine using a linux agent.
If you set the browser to go to www.yahoo.com it should be like what I posted.
If you set the browser to go to www.yahoo.com it should be like what I posted.
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J_D_
If you are using Firefox, Go to Help/Troubleshooting Information and look for "User Agent" it should be the 4th line down in "Application Basics".
Even though I'm running Slacko 5.6 and Firefox 24.8.0esr, mine has to be:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0
in order for www.yahoo.com to display correctly.
What does yours say when you are using Mint?
If you are using Firefox, Go to Help/Troubleshooting Information and look for "User Agent" it should be the 4th line down in "Application Basics".
Even though I'm running Slacko 5.6 and Firefox 24.8.0esr, mine has to be:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0
in order for www.yahoo.com to display correctly.
What does yours say when you are using Mint?
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Thanks J_D_ !
that is what I was looking for.
Looking at the two strings, The major difference between the two was that Firefox is reporting a version 17 user agent with puppy. (mint is using 31).
Now that I know that, I manually edited my user-agent to find which version yahoo would allow to display a normal page.
It turns out yahoo will display correctly with versions 30.0 or higher. 29.0 and lower failed when the user-agent is linux. Windows 29.0 user agent still worked fine.
I'm sure micro$oft has *nothing* to do with it ! </sarc>
So when I edited my user-agent to say:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0
or
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0
yahoo started displaying correctly.
So you have two possible solutions. Upgrade Firefox to 30.0 or higher, or edit the user-agent string. I choose to edit my string as it is pretty easy.
Here is a link that explains how to edit the string:
http://www.howtogeek.com/113439/how-to- ... xtensions/
Use one of the 2 listed above, refresh yahoo and it will work correctly again.
that is what I was looking for.
Looking at the two strings, The major difference between the two was that Firefox is reporting a version 17 user agent with puppy. (mint is using 31).
Now that I know that, I manually edited my user-agent to find which version yahoo would allow to display a normal page.
It turns out yahoo will display correctly with versions 30.0 or higher. 29.0 and lower failed when the user-agent is linux. Windows 29.0 user agent still worked fine.
I'm sure micro$oft has *nothing* to do with it ! </sarc>
So when I edited my user-agent to say:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0
or
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0
yahoo started displaying correctly.
So you have two possible solutions. Upgrade Firefox to 30.0 or higher, or edit the user-agent string. I choose to edit my string as it is pretty easy.
Here is a link that explains how to edit the string:
http://www.howtogeek.com/113439/how-to- ... xtensions/
Use one of the 2 listed above, refresh yahoo and it will work correctly again.
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OverDrive wrote:Thanks J_D_ !
that is what I was looking for.
Looking at the two strings, The major difference between the two was that Firefox is reporting a version 17 user agent with puppy. (mint is using 31).
Now that I know that, I manually edited my user-agent to find which version yahoo would allow to display a normal page.
It turns out yahoo will display correctly with versions 30.0 or higher. 29.0 and lower failed when the user-agent is linux. Windows 29.0 user agent still worked fine.
I'm sure micro$oft has *nothing* to do with it ! </sarc>
So when I edited my user-agent to say:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0
or
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0
yahoo started displaying correctly.
So you have two possible solutions. Upgrade Firefox to 30.0 or higher, or edit the user-agent string. I choose to edit my string as it is pretty easy.
Here is a link that explains how to edit the string:
http://www.howtogeek.com/113439/how-to- ... xtensions/
Use one of the 2 listed above, refresh yahoo and it will work correctly again.
Thank you OD. I actually went to the Mozilla site yesterday and tried to update to FF 30 but it said to not directly download to Linux. I will follow your instructions later today. Thanks.
I get normal view of Yahoo using Firefox V32 and not using user agent.
I just update firefox by going to help->About Firefox->check for updates.
If you are using Slacko 5.7 and the installed Firefox ESR version. It's internal update does not work.
You have to update it using the Slacko Update Manager.
menu->setup->Update manager
Better to replace Firefox ESR with a consumer version from the Slacko PPM.
That way you can use Firefox internal update.
I just update firefox by going to help->About Firefox->check for updates.
If you are using Slacko 5.7 and the installed Firefox ESR version. It's internal update does not work.
You have to update it using the Slacko Update Manager.
menu->setup->Update manager
Better to replace Firefox ESR with a consumer version from the Slacko PPM.
That way you can use Firefox internal update.
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When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
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