770112 - User Agent should be consistent across all mobile/tablet OSes

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 741094

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 671634 added "Mobile" or "Tablet" identifiers to the User Agent string. However, according to mbrubeck in mozilla.dev.planning, these identifiers appear only on Android (and not e.g. MeeGo). These identifiers should appear consistently on mobile phones or tablets no matter what OS Fennec is running on.

Assuming bug 729348 is not going to be fixed in the immediate future, we should also implement the Gecko/<date> -> Gecko/<version> change for all mobile and tablet builds, not just Android. (Once that bug is fixed, it will be changed everywhere.)

Gerv

Comment 1

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

(In reply to Gervase Markham [:gerv] from comment #0)
> Bug 671634 added "Mobile" or "Tablet" identifiers to the User Agent string.
> However, according to mbrubeck in mozilla.dev.planning, these identifiers
> appear only on Android (and not e.g. MeeGo).

It turns out my info was out of date; the "Mobile" string was added for Maemo in Firefox 15 by bug 756384.

> Assuming bug 729348 is not going to be fixed in the immediate future, we
> should also implement the Gecko/<date> -> Gecko/<version> change for all
> mobile and tablet builds, not just Android.

This is already fixed on trunk by bug 588909 but that is likely to be backed out on Aurora/Beta until known compatibility issues are fixed.  I don't think any action is needed here unless Maemo maintainers want to take this change on the release channel before desktop Firefox maintainers.

Comment 2

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Attachment: remove "Fennec/VERSION" from XUL fennec UA

This removes the one remaining difference between Maemo and Android Firefox UAs on trunk, by removing "Fennec/16.0" from the UA for Firefox on Maemo (and any other platform that uses the mobile/xul front-end).

Comment 3

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

This happens to be the same patch that I submitted in bug 700595 and bug 741094...

Comment 4

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Resolving this bug since everything is covered by existing bugs.