265173 - User agent string incorrect for Firefox 1.0 Preview build

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[jtphilips2000]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

The http user agent string reported by Firefox 1.0 Preview build 20041001 (both
in Help About and as sent in the HTTP_USER_AGENT env variable) shows this:

  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

This should instead say:

  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/1.0.1

For example, build 0.9.1 showed:
  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/2004xxxx Firefox/0.9.1

Clearly it should not be showing 0.10.1.

This needs to be fixed for a variety of reasons, including browser sniffers on
the net that will incorrectly identify 0.10.1 as a PRE 1.0 browser (since it
will be treated as 0.10 instead of 1.0.

If for some reason 0.10.1 is being used intentionally, this really needs to be
reconsidered.  Not only would that be counter intuitive but also is inconsisent
with previous build numbers in the user agent string for Firefox (such as 0.9.1
and 0.8.0).



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use Help About and see the user agent string reported under XP, or
2. Hit any page with Firefox and display the http_user_agent env var.


Actual Results:  
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
was returned

Expected Results:  
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/1.0.1
 (or Firefox/1.0.0 or Firefox/1.0, but certainly not 0.10.1)

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

This is as designed.  The last version was 0.9 (nine), this is 0.10 (ten).

It will not show 1.0 until 1.0 is final.

Comment 2

[Sander]

v. 
0.10.1 is indeed a PRE 1.0 browser

Comment 3

[jtphilips2000]

Thank you for the confirmation that this is intentional.  It is good to know
that it is on the radar and will be updated to 1.0.x upon the final release build.