qutebrowser and Github

Ryan Roden-Corrent ryan at rcorre.net
Fri Mar 11 22:17:19 CET 2016


Thanks! Switching user-agent back to the default seems to help.
I can't remember why I changed it in the first place.

On Fri 03/11/16 03:49PM, Chris Salzberg wrote:
> FWIW, I found that if I set my user-agent to the default github sort of
> works, but still it's really sluggish when switching tabs and I find I often
> have to reload the page to see what I want to see.
> 
> It's annoying that companies like Github who should know better make their
> interface so dependent on your user-agent...
> 
> Looking forward to QtWebEngine!!! ;)
> 
> On 03/11 at 06:36, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> >* Ryan Roden-Corrent <ryan at rcorre.net> [2016-03-10 21:08:43 -0500]:
> >>I remember a while back a mail went around about qutebrowser having trouble with
> >>Github's web UI. Has anyone tried contacting their support about this? I did,
> >>and was told they couldn't repro it. I just waited figuring the problem would
> >>sort itself out eventually, but it still hasn't. In particular, I need to launch
> >>chromium every time I want to open a PR because the buttons and dropdowns don't
> >>work in qutebrowser. For those that weren't following this, there _was_ a time
> >>when it worked, but it hasn't for a while (months, maybe?).
> >
> >After some people contacted support, it worked again after a few
> >days - but only if you set your user-agent to the default.
> >
> >Not sure what weird stuff they do, but things are going to get better
> >with QtWebEngine in the future either way.
> >
> >Florian
> >
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