203922 - userAgent strings in JS return Mozilla as Netscape 5.0

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 61071

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Bill Creswell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030429 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030429 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Javascript returns Mozilla as Netscape 5
<script>
alert(navigator.appName)
alert (navigator.appVersion)
</script>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run script to display appName
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Displays Netscape 5.0


Expected Results:  
Displayed Gecko 1.4 or Mozilla 1.4 or Firebird .6

Comment 1

[Adam Hauner]

-> JS Engine

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no, Netscape is correct
It would break many pages if we change that.

-> invalid (and you can dupe it to another invalid bug but the reporter can
search to find the discussions in this bugs)

Comment 3

[Bill Creswell]

But - Should the version number continue to be 5.0? Then there is no distinction
between versions.

How about "5.1.4a" ? 

There are many new features in Moz, and espc. now with Firebird becoming Moz,
that  there needs to be a distinction in web logs!

Comment 4

[Phil Schwartau]

Reopening to re-resolve in the DOM Level 0 component;
this is simply not a JS Engine issue -

Comment 5

[Phil Schwartau]

Reassigning to DOM Level 0 -

Comment 6

[Phil Schwartau]

This is a duplicate of bug 61071, 
"navigator.appName and navigator.appVersion"

Both issues are mentioned there, although the |appVersion| issue
doesn't seem to have been explained.

If anyone wants to discuss that particular issue further,
please reopen bug 61071.

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