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Re:Torpedo – Share files, passwords, and more with self-dest... by isomorphic on Monday May 19, 2014 @02:59PM (#7769132)
I get: "Your Web Browser is Out of Date! Some features of this site (and many others) may appear broken. Your browser may also have serious security flaws. We recommend you upgrade to the latest version of a modern browser."

This is on Firefox 29.0.1, Mac OS X 10.9.3.

Even if whatever is causing that message is fixed, the language of the message really needs changing. I am running the latest version of a modern browser, and so are the other potential users/customers that you've redirected away from your site!

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Re:Torpedo – Share files, passwords, and more with self-dest... by nwah_ on Monday May 19, 2014 @03:52PM (#7769409)
Hey guys, sorry about that. We just rolled that message out a day or two ago. The browser-detection is based on https://github.com/gabceb/jquery-browser-plugin but obviously needs some work. Working on a fix for that now.
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Re:Torpedo – Share files, passwords, and more with self-dest... by polemic on Monday May 19, 2014 @04:10PM (#7769494)
Detect features instead of browsers?
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Re:Torpedo – Share files, passwords, and more with self-dest... by harrystone on Monday May 19, 2014 @03:22PM (#7769246)
Same here, running the latest version of Firefox on Slackware.
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Re:Torpedo – Share files, passwords, and more with self-dest... by jms703 on Monday May 19, 2014 @03:33PM (#7769309)
What are they basing this message on?
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Re:Torpedo – Share files, passwords, and more with self-dest... by mischanix on Monday May 19, 2014 @03:40PM (#7769344)
Chrome. Although Firefox is non-free now too so it hardly matters.
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Re:Torpedo – Share files, passwords, and more with self-dest... by vemy on Monday May 19, 2014 @03:54PM (#7769421)
How is Firefox non-free now?
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Re:Torpedo – Share files, passwords, and more with self-dest... by dublinben on Monday May 19, 2014 @04:02PM (#7769457)
It's not. They're probably making a veiled reference to the overblown EME discussion from last week.
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Re:Torpedo – Share files, passwords, and more with self-dest... by orik on Monday May 19, 2014 @04:01PM (#7769450)
mischanix was referring to Mozilla's decision to ship EME (Encrypted Media Extensions; DRM) in Firefox.
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