Firefox as default browser in Fedora

Toshio toshio at tiki-lounge.com
Fri Feb 13 23:33:59 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 17:49, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> That shouldn't be necessary. For all web purposes, epiphany and firefox are
> mozilla:
> epiphany: "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040116
> Epiphany/1.0.7"
> 
> firefox: "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207
> Firefox/0.8"
> 
Cool.  Good to know I won't have to try to explain software politics to
financial institutions :-)

> Besides, they shouldn't be blocking from UA...
> 
Sure, but I think it's a corollary to Murphy's Law: "If your browser has
the features to display the website, the website authors will prevent it
because they can."

-Toshio
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