Bug#748897: Iceweasel default user agent compromises privacy

2014-05-22 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 04:41:18AM -0400, Rolf Braun wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:00 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:19:20PM -0400, Rolf Braun wrote: > > > - Inclusion of the "Iceweasel" token, which is much rarer than standard > > > Firefox. > > > > This one is a tough

Bug#748897: Iceweasel default user agent compromises privacy

2014-05-22 Thread Rolf Braun
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:00 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:19:20PM -0400, Rolf Braun wrote: > > - Inclusion of the "Iceweasel" token, which is much rarer than standard > > Firefox. > > This one is a tough call. You're actually using a not-Firefox browser. > And making Iceweas

Bug#748897: Iceweasel default user agent compromises privacy

2014-05-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 02:00:10PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > Actually, it's not, but there's a bug that only affects esr. If you look > at e.g. iceweasel 23 on snapshot.debian.net, you should see > Gecko/20100101. Likewise in unstable and experimental. Aurora builds > from mozilla.debian.net don'

Bug#748897: Iceweasel default user agent compromises privacy

2014-05-21 Thread Rolf Braun
Package: iceweasel Version: 24.5.0esr-1~deb7u1 >From https://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel#User-Agent_string and confirmed using a server-side user-agent test, iceweasel on stable gives this User-Agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20140429 Firefox/24.0 Iceweasel/24.5.0 It is