Error accessing yahoo.com from Google Chrome since 11.10 updates

Does it happen as a new user?

Happens when the automatic home page opens in Google Chrome (set to open with yahoo.com), and then when I try to delete the url and redo it as yahoo.com, it goes back to m.yahoo.com.  Did not try as new user because I am not a new user and it is difficult to get around in m.yahoo.com on a desktop.  It has poor graphics, hard to see, hard to find or access.  Works OK when I go to yahoo.com using Firefox, so it appears to be a Google Chrome issue.
As a furtehr note, recent ubuntu updates relative to Google are not loading and am getting error messages so whatever fixes are being sent are not applying.  Non Google fixes in the updates have gone through OK.
Hope this helps.

--- On Thu, 10/27/11, actionparsnip <email address hidden> wrote:

From: actionparsnip <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #176403]: Error accessing yahoo.com from Google Chrome since 11.10 updates
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, October 27, 2011, 5:21 AM

Your question #176403 on unity in Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+question/176403

    Status: Open => Needs information

actionparsnip requested more information:
Does it happen as a new user?

--
To answer this request for more information, you can either reply to
this email or enter your reply at the following page:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+question/176403

You received this question notification because you asked the question.

You need to try it as a different user account on your Ubuntu system (not a new Yahoo account), to see if the problem is user-specific. This is a critically important diagnostic step, without which it is unlikely that a solution to your problem could be proposed. actionparsnip is not saying that you should consider using a different user account as a *solution* to the problem.

Please let us know whether or not the problem occurs in Google Chrome, when you run Google Chrome after logging in to your Ubuntu system with a different user account. If you only have one user account on your Ubuntu system, you should create a second one for the purpose of testing this.

Also, are you using Google Chrome, or are you using the Chromium browser (which is similar to, but not the same as, Google Chrome)?

"As a furtehr note, recent ubuntu updates relative to Google are not loading..."

Can you explain in greater detail what you mean? Please include the full and exact text of any error messages, if possible.

I set up a new user account in ubuntu 11.10 and used it to attempt to get into yahoo.com  using Google Chrome and it still defaults in error to m.yahoo.com. No change.

I am using Google Chrome 15.0.874.106 and am not using the Chromium browser.

"As a furtehr note, recent ubuntu updates relative to Google are not
loading..."  This seems to have corrected itself with later updates, so there is no Google Inc update waiting to be loaded now.

Hope this helps to get us closer to a solution.

Your question #176403 on chromium-browser in Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+question/176403

    Status: Open => Needs information

Eliah Kagan requested more information:
You need to try it as a different user account on your Ubuntu system
(not a new Yahoo account), to see if the problem is user-specific. This
is a critically important diagnostic step, without which it is unlikely
that a solution to your problem could be proposed. actionparsnip is not
saying that you should consider using a different user account as a
*solution* to the problem.

Please let us know whether or not the problem occurs in Google Chrome,
when you run Google Chrome after logging in to your Ubuntu system with a
different user account. If you only have one user account on your Ubuntu
system, you should create a second one for the purpose of testing this.

Also, are you using Google Chrome, or are you using the Chromium browser
(which is similar to, but not the same as, Google Chrome)?

"As a furtehr note, recent ubuntu updates relative to Google are not
loading..."

Can you explain in greater detail what you mean? Please include the full
and exact text of any error messages, if possible.

--
To answer this request for more information, you can either reply to
this email or enter your reply at the following page:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+question/176403

You received this question notification because you asked the question.

Try:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chromium-daily/ppa; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get -y upgrade

It sounds like yahoo.com may be doing user-agent detection, and failing to detect the chrome user agent. If so, then the error is not on your computer, but on the remote server.

I would suggest trying to alter your user agent

http://www.labnol.org/software/change-google-chrome-user-agent-string/4566/

Try changing it to a generic firefox-on-windows string (below), and see if this magically fixes the problem

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1

P.S -- Im not suggesting modifying the binary. See the comment at the end of that link which says to launch google chrome/chromium with the --user-agent="whatever" argument on the command line

It is working now on its own.  Perhaps one of the latest updates resolved it.

Your question #176403 on chromium-browser in Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+question/176403

    Status: Open => Answered

actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
Try:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chromium-daily/ppa; sudo apt-get update;
sudo apt-get -y upgrade

--
If this answers your question, please go to the following page to let us
know that it is solved:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+question/176403/+confirm?answer_id=4

If you still need help, you can reply to this email or go to the
following page to enter your feedback:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+question/176403

You received this question notification because you asked the question.

Or maybe the Yahoo website was fixed.

In either case, since the problem is now resolved, please mark this question as Solved. You can do that at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+question/176403. If this specific problem ever recurs, you can always reopen the question.