249327 - FireFox seen as Netscape 5.0

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 61071

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Matt Verstarete]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

When using JavaScript's navigator.appName Firefox is identified as Netscape 5.0
amd mot Firefox

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write a JavaScript that alerts navigator.appName
2. Open sed secript in firefox

Actual Results:  
Alert box reads Netscape 5.0

Expected Results:  
App box should read Firefox 0.9.1

Comment 1

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

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

Comment 2

[Matt Verstarete]

Ok, I read over that bug that this is a duplicate of and jsut can't figure the
resoning behind identifying Firefox as Netscape. Arnt they 2 seperat programs? 2
seperate devf tems? And from what I udnerstood Firefox has nothing to do with
Netscape.

Comment 3

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

Yes, they are to separate programs, but they all (Mozilla, Netscape 6+, Firefox,
oothers) use the same rendering engine (Gecko) therefore web devlopers need to
be able to detect it. changing navigator.appName would break many web pages and
cause  a lot of rewrites. However "Firefox" is still present in the user agent
string:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1