On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:40 AM Randell Jesup <rjesup.n...@jesup.org> wrote: > > >On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 11:40 PM Chris Peterson <cpeter...@mozilla.com> > >wrote: > >> I propose that Win64 and WOW64 use the unadorned Windows UA already used > >> by Firefox on x86 and AArch64 Windows: > >> > >> < "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 > >> Firefox/66.0" > >> > "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0" > > > >Would there be significant downsides to hard-coding the Windows > >version to "10.0" in order to put Windows 7 and 8.x users in the same > >anonymity set with Windows 10 users? > > > >(We could still publish statistics of Windows version adoption at > >https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware ) > > I wonder if any sites distributing windows executables might key off the > OS version to default to the correct exe for your version of windows?
Are there known examples of apps like that? AFAICT, even Skype.com provides the Windows 7 -compatible .exe as the download even with a Windows 10 UA string, and you need to know to go to the Store if you want the Windows 10-only version. -- Henri Sivonen hsivo...@mozilla.com _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
