Firefox 3.5 Branding Fix for Jaunty

[drskartik]

Thanks it was of great help, did'nt realise it could be so easy and quick.
Kartik

[nortexoid]

Worked for me. Someone who knows how to make scripts needs to make one so that this routine task can be carried out in a single click/command.

Thanks!

[JPKnowMad]

Hey Guys,
this worked well for me. One thing, when I opened firefox afterwards it said i should upgrade to 3.5.3. How can I do that while keeping these changes? Thanks

[nortexoid]

Since I've got the mozilla dailys, when I updated Firefox all the changes I made (doing things mentioned here) reverted. I'm back to Shiretoko's branding. Rubbish!

Is there a permanent fix that will survive updates?

[-_- Joseph -_-]

I've had this problem for a while thanks for the update

,Joseph

[TokyoYank]

Since I've got the mozilla dailys...Is there a permanent fix that will survive updates?

Just an idea:

Since there are multiple routes to 3.5, could any gurus reading write a firefox-3.5-fixbranding package, either a) using the OP script or b) packaging required icons? ... Is there an easy way to write a script that runs only when a certain file(s) gets touched?

BTW If/when such a package should exist, then I'd be happy to write a "HowTo Upgrade to Firefox 3.5 for 8.10 and 9.04". If you google "ubuntu firefox 3.5 howto" you get a mix of hits before it was in the repos, but no concise howto for folks wanting "to add plus tab," etc.

/end $.02

[nortexoid]

Try changing the general.useragent.extra.firefox in about:config by replacing 'Shiretoko' with 'Firefox'.

It's not exactly the type of rebranding you want, but it will at least make Shiretoko compatible with sites that check for user agent, e.g. Facebook. I've had no problems so far doing this.

[makkirot]

Works fine !.Thanks buddy

[TokyoYank]

Try changing the general.useragent.extra.firefox in about:config by replacing 'Shiretoko' with 'Firefox'.

Mine said Shiretoko/3.5.3 (which I changed to Firefox/3.5.3)

..does that mean this value gets reset upon 3.5 updates, or just the version number?

So far so good, will try to remember to check this next update

[nortexoid]

Mine said Shiretoko/3.5.3 (which I changed to Firefox/3.5.3)

..does that mean this value gets reset upon 3.5 updates, or just the version number?

So far so good, will try to remember to check this next update

No, it doesn't get reset, but as you predict, the version number gets updated. The whole value of general.useragent.extra.firefox remains as 'Firefox/[version]', e.g. 'Firefox/3.5.4pre'.

Perhaps if you change the whole value, including the version number tailing the '/' (slash), the whole string might not change at all. I haven't tried this. (Some people remove the 'pre'.)