FS#18577 - [firefox] user agent problem

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Yi Wang (sfbi) - Friday, 05 March 2010, 16:20 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 05 March 2010, 16:43 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: There are websites which test the browser first, and then implement different jobs according to it. Firefox in Arch adopts the version name as the user agent, which is very bad for those websites. I suggest the package use the original user-agent (and best all the default icons and so on) from mozilla, since that is common and best for the majority.

The package "firebrand" currently restores everything into the original. The existence of this package has already shown that it is not a good idea to change these things.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Friday, 05 March 2010, 16:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  Upstream should change the user agent, or websites should start implementing common sense. Firefox is not a browser to check for, but an implementation of the gecko engine.
Comment by Yi Wang (sfbi) - Friday, 05 March 2010, 16:24 GMT
The problem for me is: the firefox package is faulty in the sense that many websites behaves badly. And after the user agent being changed back to the original ("firefox"?), firefox behaves perfectly.
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Friday, 05 March 2010, 16:36 GMT
Due to mozilla licensing, we cannot distribute the firefox package with official branding. You can either use firebrand, change manually the agent or use User Agent Switcher addon.
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Friday, 05 March 2010, 16:37 GMT
Using the original Logo is afaik not allowed. Change the user agent to firefox should be fine though. (e.g. Chromium sends chrome as user agent, too)

Loading...