776567 - UserAgent long and identifiable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 572650

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[enda]

Why is the UserAgent so long and identifiable?
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1

Can't it just be:
Firefox/14.0.1 (Windows)

or even:
Firefox/14

or even:
Firefox


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Comment 1

[j.j.]

> Can't it just be:
> Firefox/14.0.1 (Windows)
no, it can't for various compatibility reasons

> /20100101
this part is gone in Gecko 15

duping

Comment 2

[j.j.]

> Firefox/14.0.1
and the .1 part is also gone in future versions

Comment 3

[Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] 🇵🇱 - (please needinfo? me - so I will see your comment/reply/question/etc.)]

too bad .0 part isn't gone too ;p

Comment 4

[j.j.]

(In reply to j.j. (inactive in 2012) from comment #1)

> > /20100101
> this part is gone

this comes back for now (AOL webmail compat, see bug 778408)