FireFox appears to be telling web servers that I am running 3.0.10 when I am on 7.0.1 for OS X
My laptop died and I migrated to a new one running OS X Lion using Migration Assistant.
Now, several websites are telling me that I am running an old version of FireFox and to update. Example: plus.google.com
I tried adding a plugin to allow me to specify my version but that is not working as well since the browser reports the wrong version to the plugin manager. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/prefbar/ says: Not available for Firefox 3.0.10
I am running version 7.0.1 on OS X 10.7.1 (looking at the details below, you are showing very different versions.)
Please help.
Thanks, Jacob
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You have a pref general.useragent.override that changes the user agent.
- Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042315 Firefox/3.0.10 GTB5 GoogleToolbarFF…
See:
- https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Websites+or+add-ons+incorrectly+report+incompatible+browser
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Resetting_your_useragent_string_to_its_compiled-in_default
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You have a pref general.useragent.override that changes the user agent.
- Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042315 Firefox/3.0.10 GTB5 GoogleToolbarFF…
See:
Thank You! This solution is far better than the sync, purge, and reinstall solutions I had seen before. Do you think this setting was added by one of my plugins? I cannot imagine doing it myself. I do all kinds of things to my browsers, but typically emulating an older browser is not one of them.
Again, Thanks, Jacob
That user agent shows a GoogleToolbarFF (GTB5) part, so that toolbar is a likely suspect of a change that happened in the past (2009).