191986 - Current trunk zip builds misidentify Windows XP as Windows 98

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Joshua Holman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030204
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030204

In the trunk nightly build of 20030204, the user-agent misidenifies Windows XP
(Windows NT 5.1) as Windows 98. I have tested the 1.2.1 installer and ZIP file,
plus the 20030204 trunk build installer. All three builds identifies Windows XP
as Windows NT 5.1. Other browsers, such as MSIE 6.0 SP1, also correctly identify
Windows XP as Windows NT 5.1. I am on a Windows XP Home machine with 256 MB of RAM.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download the latest trunk ZIP file for Windows
2. Create a profile.
3. Go to "about:" or Help, About Mozilla

Actual Results:  
The about page gave this incorrect user agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030204

Expected Results:  
The user-agent on the about page should have read:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030204

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

you're not using any useragent spoof in your prefs.js or user.js ?

Comment 2

[Joshua Holman]

No, i'm not spoofing the user-agent. I unzipped the trunk build to my HDD 
without making any changes to it.

Comment 3

[Martin Poirier]

Unzipping the trunk build on your HDD without making any changes to it does not
guarantees that your user-agent isn't spoofed, you must check in your profile
directory as these files (prefs.js and user.js) aren't touched when
installing/unzipping a new mozilla build

Comment 4

[Joshua Holman]

I tried out the latest nightly on my families Windows ME laptop. The build was 
identified correctly as Windows ME (Win 9x 4.90). I couldn't get the build to 
work on my WinXP box.

Comment 5

[Joshua Holman]

The last nightly trunk build I tried identified me as Win XP (Win NT 5.1). I
think this whole bug is moot now.