user string agent doesn't identify ubuntu

Bug #246775 reported by John Levin
18
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Alexander Sack
Hardy
Fix Released
High
Alexander Sack
Intrepid
Fix Released
High
Alexander Sack

Bug Description

Binary package hint: mozilla-firefox

The user agent string of firefox in hardy doesn't identify it as being Ubuntu:

• Ubuntu 7.10: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11
• Ubuntu 8.04: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008060309 Firefox/3.0

This was noted by Distrowatch:
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080707#statistics

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

most likely was dropped in one of our preference cleanups. Thanks for escalating this.

Changed in firefox:
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
assignee: nobody → asac
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Fix Committed
assignee: nobody → asac
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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

According to the changelog, this is fixed in Intrepid:

firefox-3.0 (3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  RELEASE 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 to ubuntu/intrepid
  * Fix: #246775 - "wrong user-agent string in hardy build" by adding proper
    build-depends
    - update debian/control

 -- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:08:26 +0200

though the magic syntax was missing to automatically close the bug.

Changed in firefox:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Julian Alarcon (julian-alarcon) wrote :

I'm using Firefox 3.0.3 in Hardy from official repositories. And this bug is no more!!

My user agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-AR; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3

Changed in firefox:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Julian Alarcon (julian-alarcon) wrote :

Changelog here:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2008-September/012018.html

firefox-3.0 (3.0.2+build6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1) hardy-security; urgency=low

  * new security/stability release (v3.0.2 build6)
    - see USN-645-1

  * Fix: #246775 - "wrong user-agent string in hardy build" by adding proper
    build-depends
  - update debian/control

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