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Google thinks my browser is old

Canada_jezusCanada_jezus Registered User regular
edited February 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
Hey,

youtube, google docs and whatnot all have this message "we'll be phasing out support for your browser soon" blah blah blah. But i've got the most recent version of firefox (3.6). I've tried clearing cache it didn't change anythin. I *could* reinstall but frankly i'd find that to be a huge pain in the balls.

Anyone else run into this?

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Do you have any plugins that might be causing your browser to identify as IE6?

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    one of those newsed letters - a blue sky
  • TzyrTzyr Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I think I saw this on a site when I was using No-Script plugin. When I allowed the site, it loaded fine.

    So yeah, like MKR said, look at your plugin settings.

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  • WildEEPWildEEP Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Does it do this in any other browser or just Firefox?

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  • Canada_jezusCanada_jezus Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    It does this only with firefox. IeE (that i don't actually use) and chrome are fine. I disable all my plugins to check and the message persisted.

    Do i need to uninstall the plugins or something?

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Go to about:config and type agent in.

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  • Canada_jezusCanada_jezus Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    general.useragent.extra.firefox;Firefox/3.6
    general.useragent.extra.microsoftdotnet;(.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
    general.useragent.locale;en-GB
    general.useragent.override;Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16
    general.useragent.security;
    general.useragent.vendor;
    general.useragent.vendorSub;

    Right found it, no idea what it means though.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    That means Google is being a silly goose.

    http://www.google.com/support/forum

    Pick a service you're getting the message on, describe the problem (and list the affected services), and you'll probably get an answer in a reasonable amount of time.

    edit: http://whatsmyuseragent.com/

    Check that too just in case those config entries aren't what I think they are.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited February 2010
    Canada_jezus wrote: »
    general.useragent.extra.firefox;Firefox/3.6
    general.useragent.extra.microsoftdotnet;(.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
    general.useragent.locale;en-GB
    general.useragent.override;Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16
    general.useragent.security;
    general.useragent.vendor;
    general.useragent.vendorSub;

    Right found it, no idea what it means though.

    Remove/disable this one. It overrides the user agent string and identifies as Firefox 2.0.

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  • Canada_jezusCanada_jezus Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Cheers that seems to have sorted it.

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