| Summary: | firefox-redhat-default-prefs.js gets ignored (useragent) | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | JohnStanley <john.stanley> |
| Component: | firefox | Assignee: | Red Hat Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 6.2 | CC: | stransky, tpelka |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2012-06-21 14:50:34 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
Since RHEL 6.3 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as exception or blocker. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Yes, it's because we want to minimize browser fingerprint, so the OS has been removed. (In reply to comment #3) > Yes, it's because we want to minimize browser fingerprint, so the OS has > been removed. Ok, it's a done deal then. |
Description of problem: useragent strings get ignored. What comes up when the browser makes a web request is: "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120226 Firefox/10.0.1" What it used to be is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111109 Red Hat/3.6-3.el5 Firefox/3.6.24 general.useragent.override can be used to change this behavior but it changes the whole string. So if that is used it would have to be used as: pref("general.useragent.vendor", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; MyOSName Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120226 Firefox/10.0.1\"); It appears this is the only preference way of changing this instead of the hardcoded way in the source. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-10.0.1-1.el6 How reproducible: Change the default preferences or use them as is and rebuild srpm then install. Hit http://localhost then tail /var/log/httpd/access_log Additional info: The Gecko prefs seem to be fine with the correct build date. There seems to be mixed decisions and feelings on changing this string among the mozilla developers. Security reasons the highest and spoofing. Many Linux admins depend on "MyOSName" in apaches access_log to determine the visiting OS name of the Enterprise Linux OS Flavor for statistical data. So now all we know is the visitor is running Linux which is good but what OS? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572650 http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/09/final-user-agent-string-for-firefox-4/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko_user_agent_string_reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591573 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647090