472958 - Build ID is WRONG on 3.0 "Branch" builds

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Rick Stockton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090109 Shiretoko/3.1b3pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060927 Thunderbird/2.0b1pre Mnenhy/0.7.4.666

Even after recent work in this area (e.g., bug #469396), I'm still downloading test builds which show an inconsistent-with-itself, mostly bogus Help:About string.

Below the Bird Logo, there is graphical "line of text", gray+bold, saying "version 3.0b2pre". But the selectable Build text string, which I copied into this bug's Build Identifier exactly per instructions, is grossly wrong. (Date "20060927 instead of 20090109", plus less critical wrong bits like Mozilla "1.8.1" instead of "1.9.x", "Thunderbird" instead of "Shredder").


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. download a 3.x Branch or Trunk Build.
2. install, run, and invoke Help-->"About Shredder" (or other product name provided). 
3. note "bogus" date in Build ID string, along with a other "bogus" bits of ID.



I saw this and I guessed that it's maybe not so good for these bogus strings to fall into bugzilla's database. But maybe you don't need good data in that field-- I'm just documenting a "possible issue", and then I'm outa here. Feel free to mark as "Trivial" and then ignore, if that's appropriate.

Comment 1

[Rick Stockton]

description fix: Mozilla is correct at "5.0"; it's the "Gecko" version which should be showing some flavor of "1.9.x"

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Tools - Options - Advanced - General - Config Editor, what's the value of general.useragent.override?

Comment 3

[Rick Stockton]

OOPS! I *do* have that preference setting. (Probably set by Mnenhy, an extension which I uninstalled a long time ago.) Thanks for the catch, and I'm sorry to have missed it.

no bug. setting RESOLVED/INVALID.