(In reply to rsx11m from comment #101) > ... yes, given that they performed that UA change before Firefox, but > essentially it's the same reason, so that doesn't really change much in the > order of events or argumentation (meaning, the fix here resulted from the > Gecko-token change, thus the rationale of comment #97 is valid and not just > for convenience).
I'm not sure what your point is. Backing this out still wasn't necessary and it still fixes an issue for fennec. (In reply to Justin Dolske [:Dolske] from comment #102) > Oh, derp, I should have looked harder. I didn't realize this patch was > changing the Gecko/X _and_ rv:X stings. > > OTOH, I'd suspect this ends up breaking our Firefox landing/first run pages, > which check to see if you're actually running the latest build or not. > > Did you test to see if that's a problem? And/or give webdev a heads up? I'd > expect that Mozilla's own sites/metrics are the _only_ place on the web > where this should be a valid concern. I get "Thank you for trying a nightly build and helping improve future versions of Firefox" here (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/prerelease.html). Might be because they sniff the Firefox token. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/934887 Title: Firefox user-agent string is too unique To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/934887/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
