UserAgent should have a slash after "Gecko"

[Jorge E. Gómez]

Binary package hint: epiphany-browser

Epiphany's useragent in hardy includes the string "Gecko Epiphany/2.22".

Most websites check for a string like "Gecko/20080101", including Yahoo, UbuntuForums, and even some javascript wysiwyg editors.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report. what epiphany-browser version do you use? where do you see the useragent? what issues does it create on those websites?

[Jorge E. Gómez (jorgeegomez)]

Epiphany version:
epiphany-browser version 2.22.1.1-0ubuntu1

whatismyuseragent.com :
Your User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en; rv:1.9b5) Gecko Epiphany/2.22

Yahoo.com :
"Why miss out? To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a more recent browser.
Supported browsers include:
Internet Explorer 7 optimized by Yahoo!
Firefox 2.0
Safari 2.0
Opera 9
Flock 1.1"

FCKeditor:
Doesn't start (it recognizes only browsers that identify themselves with the string 'gecko/' in their useragent)

All of this is solved by changing just that one thing (using general.useragent.override in about:config): putting a slash and a date after the word Gecko.

[Ilya M. Slepnev (khext)]

In debian 2.22.1.1-1 everything is OK.

I can reproduce it in 2.22.1.1-0ubuntu2.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug is fixed in intrepid now

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

confirming as an hardy update candidate

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Hardy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the Hardy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".