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firefox package

  1. Bug #418203
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 418203

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

This "canonical - 1.0" string comes from /usr/lib/firefox/distribution/distribution.ini. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Distribution_INI_File.

And this is where these fields are used for the about dialog: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/browser/base/content/aboutDialog.js.

This could easily be patched by changing the value of distroIdField.hidden to true in https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/browser/components/preferences/in-content/main.js#l503.

But as pointed out by Chris, this decision is better left for upstream. Please file a bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi#h=dupes%7CFirefox to request for this field to be hidden by default, or to provide distributors with a preference to hide it.