180440 - navigator.appName incorrectly identifies as Netscape causing problems with most browser detection scripts.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 61071

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Damiön]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021114
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021114

When websites use standard browser detetection scripts to test for current
browsers Mozilla incorrectly identifies itself as Netscape. Website either do
not let you enter or claim that your browser is too old to use with their site.
I do realize that these sites should be testing for features not browser version
but they can't all be W3C compliant.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to just about any website.
2. The browser detection script runs.
3. We're sorry... you can't come in... you are using Netscape 5.0 which doesn't
exist.

Actual Results:  
Many website deny access to their site.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have identified itself as Mozilla.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

That appname is correct and only the page is broken.
You would get more problems if we change it to Mozilla

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61071 ***

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

Verified Duplicate -