Reduce the amount of data sent in HTTP requests

[John Drinkwater]

Binary package hint: firefox

Mozilla is currently reducing, for the sakes of privacy and bandwidth, the amount of data sent per HTTP request by trimming inessential text from the useragent string.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572650

I notice Ubuntu’s Firefox adds ‘Ubuntu/XX.XX (codename)’ into the useragent, and that beyond the privacy issue, there is redundant information here.
For example, Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) is sent in each request from my system.

Suggested Fixex.
1. Remove ‘(%codename%)’ by unsetting general.useragent.vendorComment
2. Consider removing the distro revision by unsetting general.useragent.vendorSub
3. Consider removing Ubuntu altogether by unsetting general.useragent.vendor

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

There's no need to have this type of bug open in Launchpad. There's already work happening upstream to do this, and it's not something we're ever going to do on our own

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Oh, sorry, I misread the description. What you're requesting is fixed in any case