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On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:47:42AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote |
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> I don't think it's Yahoo. I think it's Gentoo 32-bit. |
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> My desktop machine is Gentoo 64-bit using 2.0.0.11 and it's working |
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> perfectly fine. |
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I wonder if it's because Yahoo is checking for user-agent. They may |
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allow Firefox, but not "Iceweasel", which is the default branding for |
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Firefox in Gentoo. |
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[...snip long involved story about Open Source licencing politics...] |
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Try adding the line... |
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www-client/mozilla-firefox -iceweasel |
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...to /etc/package.use and recompiling Firefox. As a quick-n-dirty, if |
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you have the "User Agent Switcher" extension installed, try setting your |
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user agent string to... |
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071229 Firefox/2.0.0.11 |
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May do the trick. While we're at it, adding the line... |
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www-client/mozilla-firefox moznopango |
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...to /etc/package.use and recompiling Firefox will speed it up. The |
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tradeoff is that you can't display Chinese/Japanese/Cyrillic text if |
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your Firefox is set to display English. Apparently, "pango" paints the |
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text characters dot-by-dot. This makes it more versatile, allowing it |
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to display multiple character sets at once. But it obviously slows |
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Firefox down. Your choice. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I'm not repeating myself |
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I'm an X Window user... I'm an ex-Windows-user |
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