Re: Iceweasel and Firefox compatibility

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:43:19AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
>> John Goerzen wrote:
>>> My suggestion is this:
>>>
>>> Take the default Firefox user agent.
>>>
>>> Where you see Firefox/x.y.z, change it to:
>>>
>>>   Firefox/x.y.z Iceweasel/x.y.z
>>>
>>> And that will accomplish everything needed.
>>>
>>> Sound good, Mike?
> 
> Sounds too Firefoxy. Would you mind trying the Camino style for a while?

I tried a few sites, and it does seem to help on them.  I am still a bit
concerned; what is the problem with the Flock/Epiphany approach?

> The usual (bad) way to do browser sniffing in javascript is to that the
> UA string from the navigator.userAgent variable.

And will that be set to Firefox?


-- John