# Discourse and Pale Moon browser
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-pale-moon-browser/80534
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2월 14, 2018, 12:22오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-pale-moon-browser/80534 "2018-02-14T12:22:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Petter1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Petter1)
#### Post date: [2월 14, 2018, 12:22오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-pale-moon-browser/80534/1 "2018-02-14T12:22:11Z")
Hey Team!
I have a slight issue with Discourse forums and Pale Moon browser (any OS, all versions).
Please look at attachment.
This issue started happening after january 20 somewhere, and seems a js issue as I get
Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled. - Yes I have js enabled.
I could not post on your issue tracker on github as it’s disabled, so here you go.
Best regards
Peter
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [2월 14, 2018, 12:41오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-pale-moon-browser/80534/2 "2018-02-14T12:41:58Z")
Hi Peter,
We never intended to use GitHub Issues to track bugs or other, the right place to report is here on [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org).
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [2월 14, 2018, 12:51오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-pale-moon-browser/80534/3 "2018-02-14T12:51:40Z")
Hi Peter,
it looks like Discourse classifies your browser as a bot. Bot detection has been improved at the beginning of January: [Smarter handling of random crawler traffic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/smarter-handling-of-random-crawler-traffic/78227)
Did you override the user agent in your browser? What’s the user agent shown at [http://www.whatsmyua.info/](http://www.whatsmyua.info/) when you visit it with your Pale Moon browser?
Gerhard
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### Author:  [@Petter1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Petter1)
#### Post date: [2월 15, 2018, 7:56오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-pale-moon-browser/80534/4 "2018-02-15T07:56:07Z")
Hi Gerhard,
Ah I see. Thank you for explaining it to me. Will you whitelist Pale Moon in the future?
user agent show:
```
## According to [useragent](https://github.com/3rd-Eden/useragent) v2.1.9:
- rawUa: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:3.4) Goanna/20180208 PaleMoon/27.7.2
- family: Pale Moon (Firefox Variant)
```
Best regards
Petter
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> **From:** “Gerhard Schlager” [meta@discoursemail.com](mailto:meta@discoursemail.com)
> **To:** biopsin@getmail.no
> **Sent:** Wednesday, February 14, 2018 1:52:06 PM
> **Subject:** [Discourse Meta] [PM] Discourse and Pale Moon browser
>
> [gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard) [Gerhard Schlager](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard) team
> February 14
> Hi Peter,
>
> it looks like Discourse classifies your browser as a bot. Bot detection has been improved at the beginning of January: [Smarter handling of random crawler traffic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/smarter-handling-of-random-crawler-traffic/78227)
>
> Did you override the user agent in your browser? What’s the user agent shown at [http://www.whatsmyua.info/](http://www.whatsmyua.info/) when you visit it with your Pale Moon browser?
>
> Gerhard
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2월 15, 2018, 8:14오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-pale-moon-browser/80534/6 "2018-02-15T08:14:38Z")
This is how we detect if something is not a crawler:
>
Since I can not see “Goanna or Palemoon” in here: `trident|webkit|gecko|chrome|safari|msie|opera` you are not being detected as a real browser.
Traditionally all browsers ship the pedegree with the user agent string:
[https://twitter.com/potch/status/963581752852717568](https://twitter.com/potch/status/963581752852717568)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2월 15, 2018, 10:23오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-pale-moon-browser/80534/8 "2018-02-15T10:23:27Z")
After reading [Goanna (software) - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goanna_(software)) I guess I am ok to add goanna to our magic string.
Trouble though is it sends a message that we support this Firefox fork, which we do not
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### Author:  [@Petter1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Petter1)
#### Post date: [2월 15, 2018, 12:05오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-pale-moon-browser/80534/9 "2018-02-15T12:05:33Z")
Hi Sam,
Thank you for your reply.
I did not know it was a UA issue until Gerhard pointed it out, if it´s troublesome I can always do a override.
Since I´m not a Pale Moon developer, only a daily Discourse user using my fav browser, I can only however hope to read one day
Discourse supports this Firefox fork 🙂
Have a nice day.
Petter
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [2월 15, 2018, 3:01오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-pale-moon-browser/80534/10 "2018-02-15T15:01:46Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> Trouble though is it sends a message that we support this Firefox fork, which we do not
Opera, at least the old one with the Presto engine, isn’t officially supported either. Yet it’s on the list.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2월 15, 2018, 7:31오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-pale-moon-browser/80534/11 "2018-02-15T19:31:43Z")
I guess it is technically correct this is not a bot or crawler, so we can add an exception here.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7af9ed66746536a51ee91da230514fab2be98293](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7af9ed66746536a51ee91da230514fab2be98293)
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [5월 27, 2020, 11:58오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-pale-moon-browser/80534/12 "2020-05-27T23:58:57Z")
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [5월 28, 2020, 3:24오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-pale-moon-browser/80534/13 "2020-05-28T03:24:43Z")