Re: Iceweasel vs. Firefox in User-Agent (was: Microsoft Virtual Earth-based apps not working)
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
<eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> wrote:
> On Qua, 29 Abr 2009, "Barclay, Daniel" wrote:
>>
>> Wait a minute. Why does the Debian-rebranded Firefox go beyond just
>> changing
>> the software name (the name used to identify the software to humans,
>> relevant
>> to the Mozilla licensing issue) and also change the _technical_ behavior,
>> reducing compatibility?
>>
>> Does the Mozilla license really require Debian to change the user agent
>> string?
>>
>> If it really does, could the string be structured something like
>> "Iceweasel (Firefox compatible)" so that at least some user-agent sniffing
>> will recognize Iceweasel as the Firefox browser the web site already
>> knows?
>
> I asked the same thing some time ago. I agree that the User-Agent should
> keep "Firefox".
I have long since set 'general.useragent.extra.firefox' in
about:config to 'Firefox/3.0' and have not had compatibility problems
since. And I see this in Help, About Iceweasel:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009030810
Firefox/3.0 (Debian-3.0.7-1)
Patrick
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