[Bug 684778] New: Firefox 4.0 user agent not customized for SUSE
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684778 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684778#c0 Summary: Firefox 4.0 user agent not customized for SUSE Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Factory Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 11.4 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Firefox AssignedTo: bnc-team-mozilla@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: gburt@novell.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0 In prior releases of openSUSE the Firefox user-agent was modified to mention SUSE. Was this intentionally removed? It was useful for detecting distros for eg http://banshee.fm/download Reproducible: Always -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684778 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684778#c1 --- Comment #1 from Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@rosenauer.org> 2011-04-03 20:41:03 UTC --- *** Bug 684780 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684780 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684778 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684778#c2 --- Comment #2 from Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@rosenauer.org> 2011-04-03 20:41:15 UTC --- *** Bug 684779 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684779 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684778 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684778#c3 --- Comment #3 from Gabriel Burt <gburt@novell.com> 2011-04-03 20:44:04 UTC --- Sorry for the dupes, was getting gateway timeout errors, didn't think it had been submitted. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684778 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684778#c4 Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@rosenauer.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED CC| |wolfgang@rosenauer.org Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #4 from Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@rosenauer.org> 2011-04-03 20:48:33 UTC --- It was intentionally as part of reducing fingerprinting based on useragent. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_4_for_developers Section: User Agent string changes https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572650 (http-fingerprint) Reduce the amount of data and entropy sent out in HTTP requests In some upstream bug the big Linux vendors (informally) agreed on removing the branding from the user agent. I hope the others are finally doing so as well for their Firefox 4 releases. I know it's inconvenient (also for the user) but for better privacy I tend to agree. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684778 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684778#c5 --- Comment #5 from Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@rosenauer.org> 2011-04-03 20:53:19 UTC --- The one with the bigger discussion including vendor strings. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581008 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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