GNU bug report logs - #44678
Set a Firefox user agent for our Icecat build

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net>

Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 06:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 44678 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 44678 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44678: Set a Firefox user agent for our Icecat build
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 23:51:21 +0530

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Hi Maxim,

> 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).

Sorry, I'm replying rather late. I just disabled the "User-Agent
Switcher" addon in my Icecat, and found that the default user agent is
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/78.0". So, I guess this bug is addressed.

Thank you,
Arun

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