7378 - Mozilla M6 for Linux mis-identifies itself

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Richard Ekle]

Netscape 4.6 for Linux identifies itself as:

Netscape
4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.9-19mdk i586)

Mozilla M6 for Linux identifies itself as

Netscape
5.0 [en] (Unix; I)


Shouldn't it identify itself as

5.0 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.9-19mdk i586)


I entered a similar bug for Mozilla mis-identiying itself in Windows NT earlier,
but I entered this as a new bug since it's running on a different OS.

Comment 1

[rickg]

Ramiro -- this one's right up your alley; and an easy kill

Comment 2

[ramiro]

shaver, can you deal with this ?

Comment 3

[Mike Shaver (:shaver -- probably not reading bugmail closely)]

I'll take it, but I'm not going to worry about it until after beta unless
someone can make me believe it's a dogfood issue.

Comment 4

[Mike Shaver (:shaver -- probably not reading bugmail closely)]

As an additional comment, I've heard from a few people who think that the
current behaviour is better, in that it doesn't provide as much information
about the running system.  (They were thinking of automated attack programs
keyed to known bugs in given OS versions.)

That said, I'll still work to fix the bug, eventually.

Comment 5

[moshev]

How come this is still M14? M14 is already out!

Comment 6

[Mike Shaver (:shaver -- probably not reading bugmail closely)]

I think the user-agent fixes from a few months back remedied this.

Comment 7

[Chris Petersen]

Works correctly in the May 22 Linux build.