The work-around for the issue as reported in #3 is not available for FF 8.0 users since the mentioned extension (User Agent Switcher) is not compatible with FF 8.0 and cannot be installed.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897794 Title: Firefox 8 User Agent String "Ubuntu;" addition causes attempt to download rather than display Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The patch added by Chris Coulson in the FF 8 packages to add "Ubutnu;" to FireFox's User Agent string has caused some sites to start offering a download of a "application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml" or similar file. This change seems to have caused an issue with 51degrees.com's .NET Mobile Framework. Visiting a site that uses the framework now prompts to download an "application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml" file. Obviously, this is likely the fault of the framework, and not Ubuntu. But I felt it should be logged, and I could not find any launchpad bug regarding this change. debian/patches/ubuntu-ua-string-changes.patch > Description: Add "Ubuntu" to the platform part of the UA string > Author: Chris Coulson <chris.coul...@canonical.com> The User Agent changed from: > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1 to > Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/897794/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp