bug#44678: Set a Firefox user agent for our Icecat build

2021-08-16 Thread Arun Isaac
Hi Maxim, > I thought the default user agent was already that of Firefox for Windows > (!), purportedly to make it less unique (thus making fingerprinting of > browsers/users more difficult). Sorry, I'm replying rather late. I just disabled the "User-Agent Switcher" addon in my Icecat, and found

bug#44678: Set a Firefox user agent for our Icecat build

2021-08-05 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello, Efraim Flashner writes: > On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 11:22:58PM -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: >> Hi Arun, >> >> Arun Isaac writes: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > Many sites---jitsi among many others---don't work properly when they see >> > an Icecat user agent. Instead, when the user agent is set

bug#44678: Set a Firefox user agent for our Icecat build

2021-08-05 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 11:22:58PM -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Hi Arun, > > Arun Isaac writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Many sites---jitsi among many others---don't work properly when they see > > an Icecat user agent. Instead, when the user agent is set to a Firefox > > user agent, these sites wor

bug#44678: Set a Firefox user agent for our Icecat build

2021-08-04 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Arun, Arun Isaac writes: > Hi, > > Many sites---jitsi among many others---don't work properly when they see > an Icecat user agent. Instead, when the user agent is set to a Firefox > user agent, these sites work as expected. Users can do this manually by > installing user agent switching exte

bug#44678: Set a Firefox user agent for our Icecat build

2020-11-15 Thread Arun Isaac
Hi, Many sites---jitsi among many others---don't work properly when they see an Icecat user agent. Instead, when the user agent is set to a Firefox user agent, these sites work as expected. Users can do this manually by installing user agent switching extensions such as uaswitcher, but it would