Bug 789729

Summary: Change the user agent to report I'm running Fedora
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Javier Jardón <jjardon>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Javier Jardón 2012-02-12 18:25:01 UTC
So statistics like http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm can represent real data

Comment 3 Javier Jardón 2012-02-14 02:31:24 UTC
Maybe a good idea is to use the info stored in the new /etc/os-release file.

See http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/os-release.html for more info

Comment 4 Martin Stransky 2012-02-14 14:40:08 UTC
Mozilla encourage distributors to not change the user agent, it should be consistent for all Linux systems. After some investigation I found that OpenSUSE/Ubuntu respect that so I'm not going to change it for Fedora either.

Comment 5 Javier Jardón 2012-02-14 18:18:41 UTC
Fine with me. Only point that actually Ubuntu is changing the UA, at least until 11.10.

Chromium:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.10 Chromium/16.0.912.77 Chrome/16.0.912.77 Safari/535.7

Firefox:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0a2) Gecko/20120214 Firefox/12.0a2

And also as you can see here:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm

Comment 6 Martin Stransky 2012-02-14 18:26:30 UTC
Ahh, you're right, I've just overlooked it. Anyway, let's leave it generic as it should be, we can change it any time in the future if we need so.