Firefox is updated to Australis but Mozilla sites say it still needs to be updated
Going to Help - About says Firefox is up to date. But whenever I open any Mozilla site, I am told to update Firefox. Any helpful hints?
By the way, I happen to love Australis. All my add-ons work fine, it is definitely faster and looks clean and lean. I use Classic Theme Restorer just to put the Status Bar/Add-on bar back on the bottom of the window. No problem, happy camper.
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your useragent (the information the browser sends to websites to identify its version) is corrupted. probably some sort of addon ('masking-agent'?) has overwritten it. please refer to this article in order to reset the user-agent settings in firefox: How to reset the default user agent on Firefox
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your useragent (the information the browser sends to websites to identify its version) is corrupted. probably some sort of addon ('masking-agent'?) has overwritten it. please refer to this article in order to reset the user-agent settings in firefox: How to reset the default user agent on Firefox
Hi puppycat,
Awesome! If I may ask, what page is this happening on? It should detect if you are up to date already. It looks like you have submitted this from a browser that is only on version 27. Do you have more than one installation of Firefox?
I think "masking-agent" is from this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/masking-agent/
in my opinion using this addon is massively counter-productive - instead hiding amongst millions of users whose user agent says Windows/Linux/Mac OS X you'll identify yourself as one of only a few hundred users of this addon which will make it just easier to fingerprint you as you're moving around the web!
Yes, I have Masking Agent installed. I will use the workaround after I have supper. Thanks, philipp!
That workaround did the trick and I am grateful. Thanks!