"Please upgrade to a supported browser" message with latest update.
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needs a user agent switcher extension.
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@Ayespy Thanks but I don't see that problem here. I was curious to know a solution should it crop up though. How do other browsers get around this?
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@rafiki They don't. They either are Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge with some kind of UI makeover. or they are not one of the big four, and they don't pass the gate.
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@Ayespy Vivaldi already uses Chrome’s user agent. No point installing an extension for that.
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@worthyb4609 Can you link an example site where you are seeing this message?
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@luetage True, yet some websites are able to sniff that it is not Chrome. Not sure how they are able to do that. Still, they can block Vivaldi, and not Chrome. Puzzling.
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@Ayespy said in "Please upgrade to a supported browser" message with latest update.:
@rafiki They don't. They either are Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge with some kind of UI makeover. or they are not one of the big four, and they don't pass the gate.
So these 'problem' sites are listing browsers they will allow and rejecting those not on the list? Why do they do that?
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@rafiki It's supposed to be both a security measure, and an effort to ensure that only "compatible" web browsers try to negotiate the site.
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@Ayespy In what way is V incompatible?
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It's most likely not. As was pointed out, it's lazy coding. It's "incompatible" because they didn't test their own site with it, and they want to make their users only access the site with the few browsers they test.
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@Ayespy Can be, but I want to see it. No one has come up with a site that triggers such a message yet. And again, a user agent switcher won’t help, unless the site in question specifically wants you to use a non chromium browser.
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@BoneTone , it is not the first time that Vivaldi suffers from this "computer racism", to the extent of having to disguise itself as Chrome to be accepted by certain web pages. For this there are only 2 explanations, well, as you say some useless webmasters, or pages paid by Google to discriminate against an uncomfortable competitor. In both cases, an absolute and scandalous disregard for the user.
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@Catweazle im a volvo person myself.have been for many years.
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@Priest72 , then a sign like the one in the image would also piss you off, with Vivaldi it also happens to me
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We still to know where (URL) it happens.
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@rafiki It's not. (Recently, however, I have to say, Vivaldi had a bug of failing to set 3rd-party cookies even when permitted in settings. This triggered an access problem on some financial websites - but it never, to my knowledge, showed an "unsupported browser" message.)
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@Catweazle So I can't go there with my new Bugatti? What is this world coming to?
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@Ayespy I get this in the Android version now more than the Windoze version, although I used to get it there.
I was even told once that they couldn't recognize my device (how the heck did I get there then? ESP?). I copied the URL into another browser and boom I was there. So it does recognize my device.
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Hi,
I got this same error message since 3.4 when visiting the website use reCaptcha, for example, Zoom.
Here is a test link:
https://patrickhlauke.github.io/recaptcha/