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Re: Iceweasel and Firefox compatibility



On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 06:00:35PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:12:07AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> > I know there may be technical arguments that "people shouldn't be using
> > user agent like that."  But the reality is that they are, and we have a
> > serious usability problem because we change user agent.  There's no
> > reason that we'd have to change user agent just because we change the
> > name it presents to us.
> 
> The fact is that everything that is failing with iceweasel because of
> its user agent will fail equally with epiphany, galeon, midori,
> kazehakase, conqueror, konqueror, and probably more. Why should
> iceweasel be an exception ?

Damn, they will even fail with Minefield (Firefox alphas and betas) and
Seamonkey (what we named Iceape)

Mike


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