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im using firefox but my computer thinks im using safari

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adam205
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I'm not sure why this is happening the addons site says im using safari, mega and when i try to download firefox it downloads in a mac format. I'm on a windows 10 pc.

I'm not sure why this is happening the addons site says im using safari, mega and when i try to download firefox it downloads in a mac format. I'm on a windows 10 pc.

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/538.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Safari/538.15 Ubuntu/14.10 (3.10.3-0ubuntu3) Epiphany/3.10.3

This is what your browser was displaying as to post this thread. I agree that it was likely the "Random Agent Spoofer" extension.

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philipp
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hi adam205, you have an addon named "Random Agent Spoofer" in your list of extensions which is probably interfering here. Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/538.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Safari/538.15 Ubuntu/14.10 (3.10.3-0ubuntu3) Epiphany/3.10.3

This is what your browser was displaying as to post this thread. I agree that it was likely the "Random Agent Spoofer" extension.

cor-el
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You may have to reset general.useragent.override on the about:config page.