Hi Arun, Arun Isaac <arunis...@systemreboot.net> writes:
> Hi, > > Many sites---jitsi among many others---don't work properly when they see > an Icecat user agent. Instead, when the user agent is set to a Firefox > user agent, these sites work as expected. Users can do this manually by > installing user agent switching extensions such as uaswitcher, but it > would be much better if our Icecat package, by default, came with a > Firefox user agent, and everything worked normally without any user > intervention. > > This bug report arose out of a discussion on help-guix. See > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-11/msg00082.html > > I would normally volunteer a patch, but building Icecat takes too long > (> 24 hours) on my slow computer. It would be nice if someone with a > faster build machine handled this. I thought the default user agent was already that of Firefox for Windows (!), purportedly to make it less unique (thus making fingerprinting of browsers/users more difficult). Isn't it the case? I changed mine long ago so I don't remember (to please some broken site). Thank you, Maxim
