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ray-lothian / UserAgent-Switcher

A User-Agent spoofer browser extension that is highly configurable
https://webextension.org/listing/useragent-switcher.html
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Always show "Mozilla 5.0/" at begining of string ! Is this correct or it is shortage in add-on ? #31

Closed Nokia808 closed 4 years ago

Nokia808 commented 5 years ago

Hi. I noticed that your applet always show "Mozilla" at start of any string I select EVEN IF IT IS NOT FIREFOX !! Is this normal or it is a bug & shortage in add-on ?

For example: if I select "Chrome+Windows 10 OS .....", then it will show:

"Mozilla 5.0/.................................."

It seem to me that "Mozilla 5.0" should not appear & never detected by visited sites as currently the case, because this make visited site know that "Chrome+Windows" is a fake & it in fact is Firefox (being Mozilla) ..............

I'm on Fedora 28 X64 bit Cinnamon edition with Firefox 65.0 X64 bit.

Best.

NoXPhasma commented 5 years ago

This is correct, all browser agents start with Mozilla 5.0: http://useragentstring.com/pages/useragentstring.php

kenyoni commented 4 years ago

Actually, what it means is:

Claims to be a Mozilla based user agent, which is only true for Gecko browsers like Firefox and Netscape. For all other user agents it means 'Mozilla-compatible'. In modern browsers, this is only used for historical reasons. It has no real meaning anymore.

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