413667 - User agent check thinks Safari and Mozilla Suite are Firefox

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: Forum, task)

Description

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=5665&topics_offset=4&topics_sort_mode=lastPost_desc&forumId=3

Need to narrow down the "isUsingFirefox" function to not match Safari and Mozilla Suite, otherwise we get weird version numbers.

Comment 1

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

The problem here is detecting things that really are Firefox, like betas, while not detecting things that are Gecko but not Firefox, like Mozilla Suite. Not sure how to do that short of making a list of product names.

Comment 2

[Laura Thomson :laura]

Is this still a problem?

Comment 3

[Laura Thomson :laura]

Stephen or Krupa: can you repro this?

Comment 4

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Safari 4 gives me:

Test test
Firefox version: 530.17 Operating system: undefined

More testing later...

Comment 5

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

[1] Safari 3.2.2 on OS X 10.5 yields:

Firefox version: 525.28.3 Operating system: undefined

(User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.28.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.3 Safari/525.28.3)

[2] SeaMonkey 1.1.16 on Windows XP yields:

Firefox version: 1.1.16 Operating system: Windows XP

(User agent: 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090403 SeaMonkey/1.1.16)

Comment 6

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

This looks fixed via the ask a question form.

https://support-stage.mozilla.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=en-US&forumId=1&comments_parentId=446903

http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=en-US&forumId=1&comments_parentId=462627