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1. PrimeM+d6[view] [source] 2023-05-25 23:24:41
>>ReadCa+(OP)
I switched to LibreWolf (A fork of Firefox with privacy enhancements and ublock preinstalled) and haven't had to deal with anything like this since.
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2. mattl+f8[view] [source] 2023-05-25 23:38:54
>>PrimeM+d6
What’s your user agent with that browser?
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3. PrimeM+A9[view] [source] 2023-05-25 23:49:21
>>mattl+f8
Same as FireFox normal.
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4. mattl+S9[view] [source] 2023-05-25 23:51:15
>>PrimeM+A9
Interesting. When I used Iceweasel it was different enough to break sites.
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5. PrimeM+Qb[view] [source] 2023-05-26 00:06:00
>>mattl+S9
I'm guessing that was because Debian refused/wasn't able to sue the Firefox branding and they extended that to the user agent. So a ton of sites just saw Iceweasel as the UA and broke because it was unexpected.
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6. mattl+qc[view] [source] 2023-05-26 00:10:46
>>PrimeM+Qb
Yeah I’m surprised more forks don’t have this issue. Maybe they’re too small for Mozilla to care.
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7. lolind+9w[view] [source] 2023-05-26 03:12:30
>>mattl+qc
LibreWolf isn't strictly a fork of Firefox, it's a preconfigured installation that locks things down and disables anti-features. So it's strictly accurate to use the Firefox user agent, because that's what actually gets compiled.
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