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Message #55068
[Bug 897794] Re: Firefox 8 User Agent String "Ubuntu; " addition causes attempt to download rather than display
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.
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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.coulson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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
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