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though my firefox is the latest, I am told it is too old and needs to be upgraded

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hmslloyd
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Some websites tell me I need to upgrade, but my browser is 9.0.1 for mac

Some websites tell me I need to upgrade, but my browser is 9.0.1 for mac

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ideato
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Your user agent is corrupted by Fast Browser Search (FBSMTWB) and that identifies you as Firefox/3.5.5

see your user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 FBSMTWB

reset user agent and you have no more problem

see also these pages and threads about Fast Browser Search (FBSMTWB in the user agent).

http://help.fastbrowsersearch.com/

http://www.pccybertek.com/2009/05/remove-fast-browser-search


thank you

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