230431 - Can we keep "navigator.vendor" a constant value

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Biju]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030811 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030811 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+

Can we keep "navigator.vendor" a constant value

In new Firebird it changed from
navigator.vendor="Firebird"
to
navigator.vendor="Mozilla Firebird"

see http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=323714#323714 to know Ext
developers issue.

a similar bug is bug# 230416



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This will likely remain constant in official mozilla.org builds after 1.0, the
point of the preferences is to allow for identification of modified products
(i.e. MultiZilla).  Using this value is not a recommended way of discovering the
product in question for this reason.

See http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/dom_window_ref50.html for more details.

Comment 2

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Yes, navigator.vendor is *supposed* to be changed by redistributors. verify invalid

Comment 3

[Biju]

Again changed!!!

navigator.vendor="Firefox"

Re-Opened so that we can keep track of changes till there is another option.

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

This bug requests to keep navigator.vendor constant. This is impossible, per the
specs. INVALID. File a bug (and mention it here) on creating another, clean
means to identify Firefox and ideally also generic xul apps.

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

reading comprehension is underrated today...

Comment 6

[Jens Bannmann]

(In reply to comment #4)
> File a bug (and mention it here) on creating another, clean
> means to identify Firefox and ideally also generic xul apps.

This was already filed by the reporter as bug 230416. (Just linking here for the
records, so the other bug gets found easier.)