1406007 - Improve user agent on Firefox ESR

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1225414

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Daniele "Mte90" Scasciafratte]

In WordPress backend is used browse happy (https://browsehappy.com) to identify the version of the browser and ask for an update in case of obsolete.

Actually the ESR release is identified as obsolete (after all is an obsolete firefox version) but user report that problem because their Firefox doesn't have a new update.

I was thinking that maybe a way is to add in the User Agent somewhere a ESR text in that way it is possible to implement a check to ignore the ESR versions.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

We explicitly do not want to do this:

(In reply to Justin Dolske [:Dolske] from bug 1225414 comment #8)
> I believe this is working as intended.
> 
> User Agent string changes are notorious for causing web compat issues, so
> changing them without a significant benefit is likely to just be a net loss
> for users due to sites breaking. (Without looking, I'd assume that's why
> it's "frozen" to .0 for ESR -- ESR users are a tiny minority of Firefox
> users, and the web is full of dumb scripts and regexs that likely assume the
> version is always .0 and may break if it's not.)