19 Dec
2018
19 Dec
'18
23:03
On 12/19/2018 02:16 PM, Dave Howorth wrote:
I've just noticed that when Firefox on my Leap 15.0 system, which currently says it is 60.3.0esr (64-bit) in the Help/About, tells web servers that it requests pages from that it is
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0"
Why does it lie about its version number?
It's not so much a lie, but a general reference to supported features -- but, it is also something you can use to your advantage: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox/Privacy#Change_user_agent_and_p... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org