Facebook wierdness
David H. Durgee
trouble getting logged in and when I finally did so when I hit the
logout I get a popup about opening a application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml
from http://m.facebook.com asking what seamonkey do with this file. I
can cancel this and then hit reload, but this is definitely not how FB
was behaving.
--Dave
Steve Wendt
> Is anyone else seeing strange behavior with Facebook today? I had
> trouble getting logged in and when I finally did so when I hit the
> logout I get a popup about opening a application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml
> from http://m.facebook.com asking what seamonkey do with this file.
I don't use FaceBook or MySpace, but I do know that the latter was
incorrectly thinking that Seamonkey was a mobile browser (WAP is used
for small screens). If it becomes a problem, you could fake your user
agent to look like Firefox.
inv...@invalid.invalid
> incorrectly thinking that Seamonkey was a mobile browser (WAP is used
> for small screens). If it becomes a problem, you could fake your user
> agent to look like Firefox.
Does not help. Facebook thinks my firefox is a mobile device.
I have to emulate IE.
David H. Durgee
It seems to work right here using PrefBar to change the UA to "FF
2.0.0.2 lin", so try an earlier FF release as the UA and see if it
works. I haven't tried anything else, but I don't recall any problems
with SM 1.1.18, so perhaps this will be corrected in time.
-- Dave
Brendan McCullough
I am getting the same thing. I had uploaded some photos when SM 1.1.18
crashed. When I tried to log back in to FB, it went to
http://m.facebook.com and the popup asking what program to download
home.php came up. Firefox on the same machine is OK.
Dave Yeo
You could try clearing your cache and see if that helps
Dave
Ray Davison
I just created a new FB account. I can log in OK, but I get the "what
do I do with this file?", when I try to log out. But I can close the
tab, so I guess it is sort of functional. Is this a case of OS/2 does
not understand XHTML.XML?
Ray
Dave Yeo
I just loaded facebook and sure enough I got the same popup as David. I
chose to open it with Seamonkey which did display it fine.
Has helpful stuff like log in with your phone and if having problems use
HTTP login.
Also has
"Download a Facebook bookmark for your DoCoMo P905A"
So I guess the problem is that the facebook developers who have probably
never heard of OS/2 think we're browsing from a Panasonic DoCoMo P905a.
Two fixes come to mind, lie and claim to be a supported operating system
or complain so they fix facebook.
Dave
Ray Davison
> Two fixes come to mind, lie and claim to be a supported operating system
> or complain so they fix facebook.
I can log-in here OK.
http://www.facebook.com/login.php
Try it.
But if I do a Google search and accept the first listing, it is a
vnd.wap.xhtml+xml and gets the "what to do" box.
Ray
PGAGA
Also try www.new.facebook.com
Phil
Dave Yeo
> Dave Yeo wrote:
>
>> Two fixes come to mind, lie and claim to be a supported operating
>> system or complain so they fix facebook.
>
> I can log-in here OK.
> http://www.facebook.com/login.php
Yes this seems to work, I didn't actually create an account or log in.
>
> Try it.
>
> But if I do a Google search and accept the first listing, it is a
> vnd.wap.xhtml+xml and gets the "what to do" box.
Yes this is the same file that I got by typing in facebook.com. I chose
to open it with Seamonkey v2+ and it opened.
I don't know why Facebook gets confused, the P905A user agent string is
unlike ours. Mozilla/5.0 (P01A;FOMA;like Gecko)
Dave
Brendan McCullough
>
Thank you! This works for me as well.
Brendan McCullough
I don't know if anyone has noticed, but Facebook has fixed this issue
for OS/2 users. I sent a polite complaint and received an equally
polite reply.
inv...@invalid.invalid
> for OS/2 users.
Of course I noticed it, before it was nearly impossible to login. A
really weird bug.
Thanks!
Martin