[Bug 897794] Re: Firefox 8 User Agent String "Ubuntu; " addition causes attempt to download rather than display

[Doug Morse]

I can confirm that, as a workaround, if you install the User Agent
Switcher:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/

and simply create a new user agent -- I called mine "Firefox 8.0" -- and
edit out the "Ubuntu; " (notice that the space after the semicolon is
removed), that this temporarily fixes the "vnd.wap.xhtml+xml" problem,
at least for the 4-5 sites I checked.

Note that the User Agent Switcher, when you create a new entry, prompts
you with the default user agent string of your version of Firefox.
Thus, this is really easy to do -- you do not have to create an entirely
new user agent string, simply edit the default as I described.

Just for clarity, you (obviously) must switch your user agent to your
new agent using Tools -> Default User Agent.  Once you change it, the
menu also changes (which I think is confusing at first), so in my case
the Tools menu changes to Tools -> Firefox 8.0.

This did not fix the problem I'm having with one website rendering raw
HTML -- the web interface for a D-Link DGS-1210-24 managed switch -- and
I have tried using several other user agent strings (i.e., IE6, IE7,
etc.) to no avail.  So, I suspect this particular problem of mine is
related to other changes within FF8 not having to do with the user agent
string.

I have attached a screenshot of the relevant settings in my User Agent
Switcher.

** Attachment added: "screenshot.png"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/897794/+attachment/2620895/+files/screenshot.png

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