Fixe Camino 2.1 for compatibility with web sites
Sep 10, '12 07:30:00AM
Contributed by: Anonymous
If you use Camino 2.1.2, you'll see warnings about it being an "out of date" browser or that there are incompatibilities with code, even though it uses a recent version of the Firefox Gecko engine. GMail notably displays these warnings. This fix solves the problem without "spoofing" the user agent to look totally like Safari or Firefox.
We want websites to know that we use Camino so they'll continue to support it. There's a simple change that will let you keep "Camino" as the user agent while enhancing compatibility.
- In the Camino address bar, type "about:config". If necessary, click OK to be allowed to edit the settings.
- In the search bar at the top of the settings list, type "user". This will shorten the list.
- Double-click the setting called "general.useragent.extra.notfox". At this point, it probably has the value "(like Firefox/3.6.28)"
- Edit that value, changing it to say "(like Firefox/13.0)"
- Save, quit and restart Camino.
On my machine, this changed only the last part of the browser's agent string, from:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120308 Camino/2.1.2 (like Firefox/3.6.28)
to
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120308 Camino/2.1.2 (like Firefox/13.0)
This fixed our problems with GMail and Blogspot.
This works because Camino 2.1.2 truly has the same core version of the Gecko web browser engine as Firefox 13.0. And Firefox 13 is modern enough for nearly every site on the Internet today, while Firefox 3.6.28 looks ancient.
Hopefully the maintainers of Camino will address this soon. But if you're having trouble with Camino, try this fix before switching to Safari or Firefox.
[kirkmc adds: I didn't test this; I don't use Camino.]
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