Closed Bug 781025 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

Aurora UA is reporting to itself to input.mozilla as 16.0 not 16.0a2

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

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

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: lsblakk, Unassigned)

Details

About: shows version as 16.0a2 but http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ shows: Your User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:16.0) Gecko/16.0 Firefox/16.0
Firefox 15 (when it was on Aurora) reported its UA as 15.0a2
cc'ing Dao for input.
Summary: Aurora UA is reporting to itself to input.mozilla as 16.0 not 16.a2 → Aurora UA is reporting to itself to input.mozilla as 16.0 not 16.0a2
This is intentional (bug 728831). We want aurora users to surf (and test) the web under the same conditions as end users. The a2 suffix can cause sites with fragile UA string parsers to unintentionally treat aurora differently from the final release.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Dao: Thanks for clarifying. Can you please involve the SUMO team on future discussions around user agents/browser detection and communicate these changes wider?
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