Closed Bug 271896 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

JavaScript navigator.appName is "Netscape", why not "Firefox"?

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 61071

People

(Reporter: u167265, Assigned: bugzilla)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

In JavaScript, the navigator.appName is "Netscape". I've never installed
Netscape on my computer. Why isn't the appName "Firefox"?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Put this code in a HTML-page and open it with Firefox:

<script type='text/javascript'><!--

document.write(navigator.appName);

//--></script>
Actual Results:  
"Netscape" was displayed.

Expected Results:  
"Firefox" should be displayed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61071 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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