[opensuse] why does Firefox lie about its version?

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? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org