What to do? Maybe there are more BSD desktop users?

I use Firefox and it looks fantastic to me. Nothing like what you mention happens. It must be some setting of yours.
Maybe a missing dependency. It builds succesfully anyway and it doesn't talk about any problems in the console output, apart from the common useless information overload.
Code:
JavaScript error: https://forums.freebsd.org/js/freebsd/freebsd-forums-mobile-layout-fixer-xf2.min.js?_v=91b29b3a, line 1: ReferenceError: jQuery is not defined
 
Maybe a missing dependency. It builds succesfully anyway and it doesn't talk about any problems in the console output, apart from the common useless information overload.
Code:
JavaScript error: https://forums.freebsd.org/js/freebsd/freebsd-forums-mobile-layout-fixer-xf2.min.js?_v=91b29b3a, line 1: ReferenceError: jQuery is not defined
I use packages, if that helps.
 
Maybe a missing dependency. It builds succesfully anyway and it doesn't talk about any problems in the console output, apart from the common useless information overload.
Code:
JavaScript error: https://forums.freebsd.org/js/freebsd/freebsd-forums-mobile-layout-fixer-xf2.min.js?_v=91b29b3a, line 1: ReferenceError: jQuery is not defined
I can confirm this error is not your problem, because I have it as well, and I don't have any link color issue either.
 
It's a shame we can't fix:
DOS 6.11 and Windows 3.11 with Netscape....🤣
It would be up to technical users / developers to lead the way.

Most software engineers have terrible web dev skills, usually a plain text website. If they could normalize on HTML4 rather than some random github pages / wordpress blog, we could bring back simple browsers.
 
It would be up to technical users / developers to lead the way.

Most software engineers have terrible web dev skills, usually a plain text website. If they could normalize on HTML4 rather than some random github pages / wordpress blog, we could bring back simple browsers.
Yes
pkg sea links
links-2.30_1,1 Lynx-like text WWW browser
 
I use packages, if that helps.
Now at 147.0.4,2 pkg version. This is my mess-around computer
I can confirm this error is not your problem, because I have it as well, and I don't have any link color issue either.
It was just an example of firefox output that I saw while using it, while there's no problem, and it doesn't show any related program component. Can we have a function name or line number? This is fake open source, in my opinion. Everything is garbled to an uncomprehensible mass of code to prevent modification. If you want something to be different, use an extension that's mostly approved unsafe.
 
I think it's time to separate the chaff from the wheat, there are enough desktop BSD users too and it's necessary to release drivers and packages for them too, not just Linux distributions
 
Anybody who wants to know what websites break if you put FreeBSD into the user agent string can just use an extension to change it. Available for Chrome and Firedfox.
 
Yes
pkg sea links
links-2.30_1,1 Lynx-like text WWW browser
I do a lot of my browsing with elinks (with js and cookies disabled, spoofed user agent, non inlined CSS disabled, and some CSS rules forced to harmonize everything, like headers colors), and you can get surprisingly far with that, provided you just want to read, and not to interact. Typically, you don't have access to the "webapp" style of websites, but all those who want their content to be seen by search engines work quite well on text browsers (depending on your personal level of "good enough" when it comes to presentation, of course ; but personally, I call a win reading all pages in the same font in my terminal without any distraction). The irony: it's not using a commonplace user agent that breaks it the most, by triggering captchas.
 
This would usually mean the post is in high quality, as it warns not to blindly believe the post. And questions are often unclear that requires many assumptions to answer. Unfortunate fact, though.
I think that it means that whatever is to follow is not mediocre. Either it's above average by a significant margin or below average by a significant margin. I'd wager that it's probably somewhat more likely to be above average than below, but that's purely speculation. ;)
 
I think that it means that whatever is to follow is not mediocre. Either it's above average by a significant margin or below average by a significant margin. I'd wager that it's probably somewhat more likely to be above average than below, but that's purely speculation. ;)
I partially turn on AI blinders if I detect too much initial fluff :p
 
I wouldn't mind with that unless it's causing impact on what you're doing or a unexpected behavior related to that misinterpreted OS.
In fact changing that may break some websites that don't know what to do or how to properly build the page if it gets a BSD string instead Linux. It depends on the framework used or how smart the developer is.
You may even consider that an extra protection for attackers :)
 
A few years ago, Firefox on FreeBSD used to identify itself as FreeBSD.
It caused problems with major websites like large US banks and newspapers. A lot of sites either flag your system as either not up to date or as mobile if they do not recognise the browser and OS. At that time, users had to change their User Agent string to Linux themselves (and remember to update the version number if you weren't using a plugin!)
This is simply avoiding that issue.
My question is why websites even need to know which operating system the user is using.
 
My question is why websites even need to know which operating system the user is using.
It could make sense if the site sillily requires specific plugins / extensions that are (unfortunately / sillily) provided for quite limited OS'es / versions only but there are no way to determine the plugins / extensions are installed or not.

I believe ALL browsers having plugins / extensions SHALL completely virtualize and hide underlying OS / CPU / GPU and others, though.
 
It could make sense if the site sillily requires specific plugins / extensions that are (unfortunately / sillily) provided for quite limited OS'es / versions only but there are no way to determine the plugins / extensions are installed or not.
What mainstream websites today do something that wild?

I'd figure if it's Flash player; if the plugin doesn't exist you just don't see the window (can have a plaintext link leading to a help page), and anyone not using Windows can probably figure something out technical :p (for-profits might benefit from allowing users who know what they're doing non-Windows before blocking profits trying to cater to non-technical while somehow entertaining a non-friendly website :p)
 
What mainstream websites today do something that wild?

I'd figure if it's Flash player; if the plugin doesn't exist you just don't see the window (can have a plaintext link leading to a help page), and anyone not using Windows can probably figure something out technical :p (for-profits might benefit from allowing users who know what they're doing non-Windows before blocking profits trying to cater to non-technical while somehow entertaining a non-friendly website :p)
Would be DRM (Digital Rights Management) things.
And lazy site admins always require "official" supports. Don't seek things like FreeBSD ports.
 
Would be DRM (Digital Rights Management) things.
Yeah I'd expect it from mainstream video streaming services, but what are other websites doing? I think it's more than bank websites doing it and their "regulations", but I'd figure in bank's cases they should appreciate me using a more secure OS than some generic maybe-outdated Windows :p

Is there a website that isn't video streaming or a bank that explicitly looks at an OS UA and blocks FreeBSD?
 
My question is why websites even need to know which operating system the user is using.
It's not necessarily that they care about the OS, but they only actively support certain configurations.
They generally do not want to spend resources tracking down errors that only occur on obscure setups.
Having an obscure OS increases the chances that you're using an obscure setup.

Is there a website that isn't video streaming or a bank that explicitly looks at an OS UA and blocks FreeBSD?
It's not necessarily that they will block FreeBSD. They will give you a degraded experience because they're not doing more work to figure out the exact capabilities of your browser. Examples are many consumer IoT devices, routers, and even some mainstream news outlets like The Chicago Tribune.
 
And more, if the web developments are outsourced, the developers would want any environments they themselves test thoroughly to minimize maintainance burden that their customers won't pay for (require fixing as the initially existed quirks that should be included in development fees).
 
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