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im using firefox but my computer thinks im using safari

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adam205
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I'm not sure why this is happening the addons site says im using safari, mega and when i try to download firefox it downloads in a mac format. I'm on a windows 10 pc.

I'm not sure why this is happening the addons site says im using safari, mega and when i try to download firefox it downloads in a mac format. I'm on a windows 10 pc.

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/538.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Safari/538.15 Ubuntu/14.10 (3.10.3-0ubuntu3) Epiphany/3.10.3

This is what your browser was displaying as to post this thread. I agree that it was likely the "Random Agent Spoofer" extension.

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philipp
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hi adam205, you have an addon named "Random Agent Spoofer" in your list of extensions which is probably interfering here. Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems

James
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/538.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Safari/538.15 Ubuntu/14.10 (3.10.3-0ubuntu3) Epiphany/3.10.3

This is what your browser was displaying as to post this thread. I agree that it was likely the "Random Agent Spoofer" extension.

cor-el
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You may have to reset general.useragent.override on the about:config page.