(In reply to Dão Gottwald [:dao] from comment #103)
> 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.

Actuallly it's because we load
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/%APP%/%VERSION%/whatsnew/, there's no
need to sniff.

(In reply to Justin Dolske [:Dolske] from comment #104)
> 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).

I think you're misunderstanding the patch. Milestone.pm exposes
$major.$minor.$mini.$micro and this patch takes $major.$minor and strips
of any alpha/beta indicators. That's unless I'm missing something...

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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.

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