On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 9:23 PM Mike Taylor <mi...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > On 5/14/19 12:53 PM, Tom Ritter wrote: > > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 4:26 PM L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote: > >> So I think there's may be value in removing these distinctions from > >> the User-Agent header we send over HTTP even if they're still > >> accessible from Javascript (and useful there for sites offering > >> downloads). > > > > While I would prefer to remove the distinction everywhere; Tor Browser > > came to this same conclusion. They send the same OS for all platforms > > in the HTTP Header (partially because Web Logs so commonly record this > > and partially in principal) but they report the correct OS via > > javascript (because we found issues with compatibility (primarily > > keyboard shortcuts in things like gdocs.) > > That's interesting -- do you have links to bugs?
In reverse chronological order: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1509829 is where I uplifted Tor's behavior https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26146 is where Tor decided on the behavior to split header and navigator https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404608 is where we decided we needed to not spoof the OS at all in header or navigator https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1405810 is where we discovered the modifier key shortcut problem _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
