Firefox issue with Nokia N900 in France
 

Hello,

I just received my N900 and here is my first issue .

SFR (French provider owned by Vodafone) proxify all HTTP request and filters on the user agent (not to allow people to use their computer as a modem...)...
N900 User agent present Mozilla, so the request are filtered. When I modifyed the user agent via "about:config" , this is only activated during the session. As soon as I shutdown the browser and launch it again, the user agent is reset to the factory one.

What could I do ?

Re: Firefox issue with Nokia N900 in France
 

in
~/.mozilla/firefox/PROFILE_ID.default/prefs.js

modify or add to taste:
user_pref("general.useragent.extra.firefox", "Firefox/4.0.0");

Or the alternative is to wait the 17th of December & see if a proper 3G provider will come to the French market...

Re: Firefox issue with Nokia N900 in France
 

Yann, how/where did you get that N900 ?... :-)

Re: Firefox issue with Nokia N900 in France
 

Just received it from my order at Nokia France today

Re: Firefox issue with Nokia N900 in France
 

I do not have a firefox folder in ~/.mozilla is that normal?

Re: Firefox issue with Nokia N900 in France
 

Aha ! Typical French privilege ! Promotional introductory price of 649€ (980$) instead of 749€ (1,130$) ! Great bargain ! Get 'em while they last !
http://boutique.nokia.fr/nokia-fr/de...ink=firstlvnav
Although I do seem to remember that 649€ was the announced price for France from the very start, and already a world record :-)

Re: Firefox issue with Nokia N900 in France
 

Normal usage ...

Modify user.js for permanent modification.

Same as in firefox on desktop pc.

Re: Firefox issue with Nokia N900 in France
 

you should be able to bypass proxy by using mobile apn instead of wap.

they usually use novarra to transcode web content for fauture phones

update, it looks like i misread but if you are using wap apn try internet apn anyway

Re: Firefox issue with Nokia N900 in France
 

No, they directly proxied the 80 port with a transparent proxy....

Re: Firefox issue with Nokia N900 in France
 

I may be mistaken but I believe they are still calling the browser MicroB.
so the file to edit is:
/home/user/.mozilla/microb/prefs.js

However, I can't get that to stick.
Thus see: http://browser-extras.garage.maemo.org/news/8/
Open this in the Application Manager http://browser-extras.garage.maemo.o...itcher.install (add the repo, then install the add-on)
Close any search toolbar widgets running, close the browser 2-3 times.
Then navigate to chrome://useragentswitcher/content/config.html

And a good list of user agents is at http://useragentstrings.com
perhaps pretend to be a iphone? You might have to play with it depending on what your cellular ISP allows.

Re: Firefox issue with Nokia N900 in France
 

I'll try ! Thanks

Re: Firefox issue with Nokia N900 in France
 

I try both way (editing prefs.js and useragentswitcher) but no way!
The prefs file is replace at each browser start and useragentswitcher doesn't work (impossible to add a useragent)

Re: Firefox issue with Nokia N900 in France
 

Hey, this reminded my of a problem I had in connection with tiddlywiki. It seems that microb reverts all changes to prefs.js that were not done within microb.

Maybe this can help in your case too.

Re: Firefox issue with Nokia N900 in France
 

I tried to change the line : useragent vendor from about:config but changes where reset at next browser start.

Is that the line I need to change?

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Re: Firefox issue with Nokia N900 in France
 

Ok, I found another solution... I installed fenec and it kept all the changes done via about:config...

Re: Firefox issue with Nokia N900 in France
 

I called my technical contact at SFR in France, they will add a filter to authorized the Maemo/N900 browser user agent.

Re: Firefox issue with Nokia N900 in France
 

Yann, When in France I usually buy a pre-paid SFR SIM for calls and SMS msgs. Do you know if SFR has any data plans (packages) for pre-paid SIMs?

I heard that they have a data plan for iPhones... in theory that ought to work with my N900, no? Is SFR using the 3G frequencies of the N900?

Any information, suggestions, would be most welcome.

Thanks in advance,

--denis