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Curious. I get redirected to [0] on Debian/Opera, with the following content: Entschuldigen Sie, Mozilla Firefox für Yahoo! optimiert ist nicht für Ihr Syste

Curious. I get redirected to [0] on Debian/Opera, with the following content: Entschuldigen Sie, Mozilla Firefox für Yahoo! optimiert ist nicht für Ihr System verfügbar. Die für Yahoo! optimierte Mozilla Firefox Version ist nur für folgende Betriebssysteme verfügbar: […] Linux (paraphrasing: Apologies, the version of Mozilla Firefox optimised for Yahoo! is not available for your system. It is only available for the following operating systems: […] Linux […]). On the other hand, the UK version of that website, [1], doesn’t mention Linux at all: Sorry, Mozilla Firefox optimised for Yahoo! is not available for your system. The Yahoo! optimised version of Mozilla Firefox is only available for the following operating systems: Windows XP SP2 Windows Server 2003 Windows Vista Windows 7 Windows 8 Mac OS X 10.6 or later See the System Requirements for more details on hardware and software requirements and recommendations. So, two questions: - Why is the German version apparently available for Linux and the English one isn’t? - Why don’t you allow me to download the version for OS A from OS B? OS A might not have a browser yet, after all. - Why are you still using browser sniffing like that in 2013? [0] http://downloads.yahoo.com/de/firefox/blocked http://downloads.yahoo.com/de/firefox/blocked [1] http://downloads.yahoo.com/uk/firefox/blocked http://downloads.yahoo.com/uk/firefox/blocked

asdfaoeu 13y ago
Anyone capable of downloading a browser for a different OS from what they are running doesn't want to download a browser "optimized" by Yahoo.
seszett 13y ago
The French version[0] mentions Linux. It still says it's not available on my system though, so I wonder how they determined my OS. I thought the "X11; Linux x86_64" string in my user-agent was obvious enough. [0] http://downloads.yahoo.com/fr/firefox/blocked http://downloads.yahoo.com/fr/firefox/blocked
FoeNyx 13y ago
> So, two questions 3 in fact :) But I share 3 questions. While trying to access it with _Firefox_ on Linux, I also get redirected to a "blocked" page in French which does mention Linux. But the "system requirement" page does not mention Linux, only Mac and Windows. This page does say the minimal requirements where provided by Mozilla, but Mozilla does provide a Linux version, so that's strange. Maybe Linux was "just" a translation error or they decided not to support it in the end and forgot to edit the translations ... btw ironically August 25th is the birthday of the first newsgroup post about Linux. Happy Birthday Linux ! So what's this "Optimized for Yahoo" version ?

asdfaoeu 13y ago

Anyone capable of downloading a browser for a different OS from what they are running doesn't want to download a browser "optimized" by Yahoo.

seszett 13y ago

The French version[0] mentions Linux. It still says it's not available on my system though, so I wonder how they determined my OS. I thought the "X11; Linux x86_64" string in my user-agent was obvious enough. [0] http://downloads.yahoo.com/fr/firefox/blocked http://downloads.yahoo.com/fr/firefox/blocked

FoeNyx 13y ago

> So, two questions 3 in fact :) But I share 3 questions. While trying to access it with _Firefox_ on Linux, I also get redirected to a "blocked" page in French which does mention Linux. But the "system requirement" page does not mention Linux, only Mac and Windows. This page does say the minimal requirements where provided by Mozilla, but Mozilla does provide a Linux version, so that's strange. Maybe Linux was "just" a translation error or they decided not to support it in the end and forgot to edit the translations ... btw ironically August 25th is the birthday of the first newsgroup post about Linux. Happy Birthday Linux ! So what's this "Optimized for Yahoo" version ?