> (In reply to Justin Dolske [:Dolske] from comment #102) > > OTOH, I'd suspect this ends up breaking our Firefox landing/first run pages, > > which check to see if you're actually running the latest build or not. > > I get "Thank you for trying a nightly build and helping improve future > versions of Firefox" here > (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/prerelease.html). Might be because > they sniff the Firefox token.
Pretty sure we don't do any special "are you current" checking on the nightly pages; I don't know about Aurora or Beta. I was actually thinking of Release builds and security updates, but I see the patch doesn't actually match the original bug comments nor current title. (Which seems to have mutated somewhere along the 100 comments which I desperately want to avoid reading. Using a new bug would have been MUCH better -- mutating complex or contentions bugs with histories just never works out well. Context matters!) Specifically, the previous history of this bug was more about exposing a version number like "rv:3" or "rv:3.6" instead of "rv:3.6.20". Now we're just dropping any trailing, say, "a2", "b1", or "pre3". So now "rv:13.0a1" becomes "rv:13.0" and "rv:13.0.9pre42" becomes "rv:13.0.9" (which is largely moot, we don't make builds like that). As long as first security update for the Release build still has "rv:13.0.1", the issue I raised in comment 102 is quite unlikely to be be a problem. And if someone still wants to push for dropping everything but the "13.0", then please file a new bug. Or get your debate on over in the Seamonkey-specific bug 728952. Finally, re:CCing Dan Witte just because he should suffer too. ;-D -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/934887 Title: Firefox user-agent string is too unique Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Fix Released Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: As shown on http://panopticlick.eff.org The useragent string "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2" is too unique and in combination with a fairly unique plugin list this allows browser fingerprint tracking, which is bad for privacy. I would suggest this change: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0 This removes makes the version number less unique. Also the Gecko version could be made a bit more generic. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/934887/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
