Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

[Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>]

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:52:36PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
>> 
>>     I think his point wasn't so much the version number as the name in
>>     front
>> of it.  Websites don't know what Iceweasel is, they do know what Firefox
>> is.
>> 
> I think that such a thing is bad.  I understand the purpose behind the
> name change.  But a browser that claims to be a Firefox-alike should
> function as much like Firefox as possible.  To me that means not messing
> with the useragent string.  That sort of thing is generally hidden from
> users and not likely to be easy to figure out/fix for many users in the
> case of a problem.

I would argue that if the value of your User-Agent string affects browsing
habits, then the bug is with the website, not the browser.