Incorrect Gecko version date in about window of Ubuntu's Firefox

[Daniel Robitaille]

In the Help -->About Firefox window, the latest Firefox in Edgy (2.0+0dfsg-0ubuntu3) reports using the Gecko engine "Gecko/20060601". This old date is obviously incorrect.

Downloading a version of Firefox directly from mozilla.org (I tried 2.0rc3) shows a more realistic date (Gecko/20061010).

So it seems there is something in the Ubuntu-specific way of building and patching Firefox that seems to reset that version date to an older and incorrect value.

[Bjorn (bjorn-nostvold)]

I'm seeing seeing something similar, "Gecko/20061010" is missing altogether, I had to set it manually to make some pages work.