How to fix the Safari (Mac) "Yahoo recommends you upgrade your browser" notice in Yahoo Mail

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To fix the upgrade notice in Safari on older Mac computers that do not support the latest version of Safari please use these steps:

  • Launch Safari.
  • In the menu bar at the top of your screen, click Safari and then select Preferences,
  • Click the Advanced tab.
  • Select "Show Develop menu in menu bar"
Show develop menu in safari menu bar.JPG

  • Go back to the Safari menu bar, click Develop and select User Agent
  • Select Other
  • Paste in the following user agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9) AppleWebKit/537.71 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Safari/537.71

After clicking OK the Yahoo page should reload and you will not be prompted with the upgrade notice during future logins.
 
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