Re: Iceweasel & Live spaces

[Matteo Landi]

Have you got any idea about how to set that option?
Tnx in advance
M@

On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 12:42 +0200, arno wrote:
> Le samedi 19 mai 2007, à 13:51:56 +0200, Alexander a écrit : 
> > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 01:36:31PM +0200, arno. wrote:
> > > Le samedi 19 mai 2007, à 13:06:47 +0200, Matteo a écrit : 
> > > > > Unfortunately firefox and iceweasel don't support broken sites as
> > > > > other broken browsers can do (every reference is purely accidental).
> > > > 
> > > > But could you tell me why i can view those pages using firefox 2? I
> > > > thought that firefox and iceweasel were the same program, apart that
> > > > iceweasel is for debian, isn't it?
> > > 
> > > I also see that behaviour:
> > > http://spaces.live.com/ works fine in firefox 2.0.0.1 from mozilla: 
> > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061208 
> > > Firefox/2.0.0.1
> > > 
> > > but it does work with iceweasel 2.0.0.3 from debian:
> > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 
> > > Iceweasel/2.0.0.3 (Debian-2.0.0.3-1)
> > 
> > We carry some mimetype patches in debian and ubuntu. Since both (ffox
> > in ubuntu and iceweasel in debian) render properly, i suspect it has
> > to do something with a patch we have. However gecko itself does not
> > recognize it as i see the rendering problem in epiphany, so i am not
> > sure. Anyway, please try the patch attached.
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> I found an explanation in mozilla bugzilla
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380043
> 
> Actually, that site sends different content-type according to user 
> agent :(
> 
> If you really want to access that site, you still can set 
> general.useragent.extra.firefox preference to "Firefox" instead of 
> "Iceweasel", but I think it's a website issue, and not a browser issue.
> 
> arno
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