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Fix Facebook Chat in Firefox 3.5 (Shiretoko) in Ubuntu

Since I upgraded Firefox to 3.5 (Codename : Shiretoko), I noticed that Facebook chat does not work anymore, moreover, in order to get notifications for new events, I had to refresh the page manually.

After a search at Google, I found the problem, and the way to fix it: Looks like Ubuntu had decided to rename the user-agent into “Shiretoko” which is the codename of firefox 3.5, instead of “firefox”.

Because of the new user-agent name, Facebook does not recognize the browser as firefox, and thus disables some features that are browser dependent.

In order to fix the problem:

1. In the URI bar (that’s the place where you type the URLs of websites you want to visit), type “about:config” (without the double quotes).

2. Click the funny button “I’ll be carefull, I promise”.

3. Now look for “general.useragent.extra.firefox”, right click it, and choose “Modify”.

4. Instead of “Shiretoko”, type “Firefox”. (e.g. if you had “Shiretoko/3.5.4pre” it should become “Firefox/3.5.4pre”.

That’s it, now the world should be a better place

via vimtips.

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Tags: Firefox, Hacks, Social Media