February 26, 2009

• It’s not really leet speak…

  Ever since Facebook.com rolled out their chat feature, I’ve wondered why it tells me to install the most updated version of Firefox, even though I always have the most updated version.  Tonight I finally decided to hunt down the cause, and I found that in the about:config of both of my Firefoxes, an addon had set random words to the general.useragent.extra.firefox property.  Now even though this addon had fallen out of updating after the upgrade to Firefox 3, the property remained set.  Turns out that a lot of websites keep track of what web browser you’re using, and if they don’t properly support it, they won’t let you access certain content.  Even though I knew I was using Firefox 3, my computer kept saying it was using Sealobster 2.0.0.14.  And since that’s what my computer said it was, the websites decided that they didn’t support Sealobster and complained.  Very effectively.

  Now that I have corrected the problem, I’m watching Dollhouse online (one of many other items I cound’t do without declaring myself to be using Firefox)!

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