Comments on: We have detected that you are running a browser not supported by this website

By: David

David — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Same sort of deal with tesco.com: use Opera (identifying itself as Opera) and you get redirected to Tesco Access, the low-res version of the site. Set Opera to identify itself as IE 6, and you can use the main site with no problems. Just plain shoddy browser sniffing.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

I’ve pointed this out to Powergen a couple of times and I got one response which was half clueful, in which the guy apologised and suggested I use Konqueror.

It’s ridiculous that a major utility provider should be so inept in its understanding of the web, particularly when it encourages its customers to do as much as possible online.

By: Senji

Senji — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Unsurprisingly it does the same thing to my “Firearachnid” (Firefox PR with Firesomething extension).

By: dusoft

dusoft — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

BTW: Have you ever noticed the strange versioning of Mozilla Firefox – we did have 0.9 and now we have 0.10 ? But of course it totally wrong: 0.9>0.10 (0.90>0.10)

This is only internal versioning and that’s related to the verion number you see at the screenshot.

Also – use extension to change browser indetification to custom (e.g. My custom Netscape v100.50) so the site works ;-)

By: Ade

Ade — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Yup, I noticed this too. I use the user-agent extension switcher by Chris Pederick, which you can either configure to say you are using Netscape 7.x (little bit of config needed) or use it to say you are running Opera (requires no extra config).

However I fully agree – why should we have to? I was amazed to see Konqueror but not firefox – go figure!