Rogers/Yahoo @#$%

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:57:44AM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> Roger-Yahoo webmail system appears to have dropped all
> support for Linux based browsers (OUCH!!!). My
> attempts to login this morning just got me error
> messages about how my browser was not supported (they
> do support FireFox BUT only on Mac & PC). Rogers phone
> support was useless (they point the finger at Yahoo).
> 
> Temp. solution is to goto the www.yahoo.com site,
> login there which at least for now works...
> 
> I tried Konquerer's change browser ID function but
> that doesn't get past the your web browser is not
> supported message. Anyone got a better solution?

Well I tried doing a useragent override in firefox and the site works
just fine now.

I went to about:config in firefox, added a new key named:

general.useragent.override

and set the value to:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1)

Amazingly stupid to not simply allow any firefox 1.5 or higher rather
than mac or windows only.  But it is Yahoo/Rogers so stupidity is to be
expected.

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