264334 - navigator.appName reports browser as Netscape

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 61071

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[John G. Miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Javascript Object navigator.appName returns the value of Netscape. Surely this
is wrong and should be Mozilla or Firefox (or even Mozilla Firefox).

This 'feature' is also present in Mozilla 1.7.3

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Access any wen page with JavaScript to show browser details
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
For Mozilla :
   1. Your browser is : Netscape
   2. Your browser user agent string is : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

For Firefox:
   1. Your browser is : Netscape
   2. Your browser user agent string is : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1



Expected Results:  
navigator.appName object should report each browser as being Mozilla (at least)

This will allow correct identification of the client

Comment 1

[Stefan Borggraefe]

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