314391 - Installing 1.7.12 Does Not Change Build Identifier or "Help/About Mozilla" Info

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 258158

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[James B. Higgs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0

Installing version 1.7.12 does not change Mozilla's version number as far as Mozilla is concerned. I have done it three times and Mozilla is still telling me that it is 1.7.11.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Mozilla 1.7.12 using auto-installer.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla's Build Identifier on this page says "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0".

"Help/About Mozilla" takes me to a page with a big, clickable "Mozilla 1.7.11" and underneath that is "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0"

Could this be a bug in the mnenhy extension? and shouldn't mnenhy be uninstalled anyway, when upgrading to 1.7.12 (I always install extensions to the application directory, not my profile, given a choice ... I *want* to have to reinstall all my extensions after each upgrade.)


Expected Results:  
Mozilla's Build Identifier on this page should say "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/????????"; No mention of Mnenhy.

"Help/About Mozilla" should take me to a page with a big, clickable "Mozilla 1.7.12" and underneath that should be "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/????????"; No mention of Mnenhy"


It should be noted that the "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0" matches the "about:config" value in Preference name "general.useragent.override", while Preference name "general.useragent.vendorSub" has the value " StumbleUpon/1.999" (note the blank space before the name of the extension)

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

yeah... in 1.7.x, the version number is extracted from the useragent, and that is overridden by general.useragent.override. if you unset that pref, the display should be correct.

later versions use a different mechanism.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 258158 ***