No More Twitter/X Topic is solved

[LAR Grizzly]

Got this today when visiting Twitter/X...

[PM-user]

Me too

[gepus]

general.useragent.override.twitter.com

Delete the value for the override and save it with the empty value.

[LAR Grizzly]

general.useragent.override.twitter.com Delete the value for the override and save it with the empty value.

Thanks! It works. Question, will the value be "restored" when I update to the next version of PM? I'm assuming that Moonchild will "update" this value in future versions.

[gepus]

It does not make sense to update this override as long as the site works without override. So it will be most probably removed.
Anyway, updates don't modify preferences set by the user.

[LAR Grizzly]

Anyway, updates don't modify preferences set by the user.

Thanks. I'll just reset the value before I update to the next version, since this is probably temporary. I couldn't remember if User Prefs were retained. I have all of the prefs I want to keep in my user.js file.

[PM-user]

Yep works

[LuftWafflePilot]

I'm surprised anyone still uses Twitter, especially since that idiot Musk took over and what became of the place.

[Southern_Computer_Geek]

Off-topic:

I'm surprised anyone still uses Twitter, especially since that idiot Musk took over and what became of the place.

Yeah Twitter was totally not already a dumpster fire before Elon took over.

[Kerebron]

Off-topic:

Off-topic:

I'm surprised anyone still uses Twitter, especially since that idiot Musk took over and what became of the place.

Yeah Twitter was totally not already a dumpster fire before Elon took over.

But now it's a burning-cross-shaped dumpster. Improvement.

[KlarkKentThe3rd]

general.useragent.override.twitter.com

Delete the value for the override and save it with the empty value.

IT WORKED!!!!!!..... but it took me a while to realize deleting overriding user agent is the same as "deleting the value and leaving it empty". I am rusty as about:config

[somdcomputerguy]

Off-topic:

Off-topic:

I'm surprised anyone still uses Twitter, especially since that idiot Musk took over and what became of the place.

Yeah Twitter was totally not already a dumpster fire before Elon took over.

Twitter Hasn't Been 'Enshittified.' It Always Sucked. - https://gizmodo.com/twitter-year-in-rev ... 1849687943

[cannonmc]

Thank you - that worked. I try and avoid Twitter itself but occasionally need to go there.

I tend to use Nitter which has most of what I need without any of the drawbacks

PS The change doesn't seem to work with an older version of PM I keep to access some sites

[mopani]

general.useragent.override.twitter.com

Delete the value for the override and save it with the empty value.

That's what I thought, but somehow it still doesn't work for me. Not that I'm missing much, but I'd like to make sure that I understand what/why for future endeavors.

[gepus]

That's what I thought, but somehow it still doesn't work for me.

Yes, that's what I meant.
With the above preference it should work for you as well, at least with a fresh profile.
Before testing with a fresh profile make sure that the User Agent Mode is set for Firefox Compatibility which is the default setting.

[mopani]

Aha,

Code: Select all

general.useragent.compatMode.firefox

was set to false in prefs.js, so it could not be changed in about:config. Removing (commenting out) that setting (with Pale Moon closed!) in Notepad fixed the Twitter/X problem -- well, at least it fixed the inability to open the website; fixing "The Twitter/X Problem" will take a bit more than that!

Thanks for the pointer in the right direction.

[BlakeyRat]

general.useragent.override.twitter.com

Delete the value for the override and save it with the empty value.

Yes, that worked. Thanks.

I rarely look at Twitter but I know that I never had any problems in the past. They must have changed something recently.

[Daikun]

PM 32.5.2 is out. The release notes state that Twitter's useragent is now deleted by default.
Hopefully, this shouldn't be a problem anymore, even for new users.

[LAR Grizzly]

Twitter/X seems to be working fine for me in PM 32.5.2. Thanks, Moonchild!