Closed Bug 832423 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Firefox ESR UserAgent String reports wrong Firefox Version

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows Server 2008
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: seth, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0 Build ID: 20130104151948 Steps to reproduce: In Firefox ESR 10.0.11 and 10.0.12, the user agent string is similar to the following: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/20130104 Firefox/10.0.1 This exists on both Linux and Windows builds - other builds have not been tested. Actual results: The Gecko version is reported correctly, but the Firefox version is not. Expected results: Firefox/10.0.1 should read Firefox/10.0.12
OS: Mac OS X → Windows Server 2008
Component: Untriaged → Release Engineering: Releases
Product: Firefox → mozilla.org
QA Contact: bhearsum
Version: 10 Branch → other
This might be by design, not sure. CC'ing some folks.
Component: Release Engineering: Releases → General
Product: mozilla.org → Firefox
QA Contact: bhearsum
Version: other → unspecified
WFM on Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. I get the following user agents: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.12 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.12
Hi Seth, thanks for reporting the bug. How are you determining the user agent string being sent? Is it possible it's somehow being truncated somewhere else? Is the value on the "about:" page correct?
It's quite possible. I'm having trouble reproducing it now - you can likely mark this as resolved. If I can pinpoint the issue back on the actual agent string I'll re-open.
Thanks for following up - feel free to REOPEN this if you have additional info!
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
On my Firefox ESR 24.5.0, the UserAgent string that is getting sent is this: User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 Shouldn't it really be saying FirefoxESR/24.5.0 for that last bit. It would give sites like Outlook.com which currently suggest I upgrade my Firefox version a little more information to work with.
I think we stopped putting minor version numbers in the user agent string after Firefox 10. If you think this is a bug which broke recently then please file a new bug. It's typically poor practice to comment on a bug that's been closed for over a year.
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