Rogers/Yahoo @#$%

[Colin McGregor]

--- Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>
wrote:

> 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.

Thanks, that does work. VERY much appreciated.

Colin McGregor
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