Seamonkey no longer a valid browser for gmail?

[cheyennemtnman]

Getting this every time I go to my gmail account...
"This version of Firefox is no longer supported. Please upgrade to asupported browser. Dismiss"

http://hoosierconsole.com/images/Gmail_ ... _Gmail.png
Version 2.40
Build - http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla- ... 91a9154e93

[barbaz]

It's just browser sniffing not properly taking SeaMonkey into account.

Log out of any sites you're logged in to, then:

about:config
right-click > new > string
name:

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general.useragent.override

value:

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0

Does that take care of it?

(Remember to remove this hack when upgrading to the next SeaMonkey release, when it comes out. To do that, right-click that preference in about:config and select Reset.)

[rsx11m]

That's weird, I'm not seeing this message when logging into http://www.gmail.com
(maybe because I'm not showing the Firefox/43.0 token in my UA string?)

Edit: Heh, this is stupid. So, with Edit > Preferences > Advanced > HTTP Networking, "Advertise Firefox compatibility" unchecked, I'm not getting that notification; if I check it and reload, I get it!

So, easy fix for now, but it may break other websites that rely on the Firefox/43.0 token.

[rodndtube]

Both Barbaz and rsx11m solutions worked, however the changing of "HTTP Networking" resulted in something like a low-bandwidth version of gmail. The Barbaz change to "about:config" did the trick with no apparent changes in performance/display.

Thanks to both of you!

[barbaz]

You're welcome, glad to help.

[BillT52]

I've noticed that some sites will pop up a warning when the version of the browser isn't recent enough, probably for security reasons. Since ewong is still working hard to get an updated build process completed and working, the FF version that current Seamonkey is based on may now be too old, but if you drop the FF version from the string entirely, gmail is OK. I guess they only keep track of updates and have minimum version checking for the major browsers.

[vladmir]

about:config
right-click > new > string

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general.useragent.override.google.com

value:

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.40

[barbaz]

about:config
right-click > new > string

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general.useragent.override.google.com

For those using SeaMonkey 2.46 or later, site-specific UA overrides were broken last I checked - http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=3021425

value:

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.40

That UA is very obviously spoofed. Did you mean this?

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49

[vladmir]

barbaz

It works in SM 2.40 as I see.
And this is only for google. If they interested only in Fx - so I've changed only Fx part of ua.)))
... Firefox/100.0 also works.))


In my SM 2.46

With it's own ua
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.46
- no yellow "This version of Firefox is no longer supported"

With ua
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0 SeaMonkey/2.40
- gmail shows yellow "This version of Firefox is no longer supported".

With ua
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0 SeaMonkey/2.40
- no yellow "This version of Firefox is no longer supported"

It looks like site-specific UA works in:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/candidates/2.46-candidates/build6/unsigned/win32/en-US/
seamonkey-2.46.zip 11-Oct-2016 06:44