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[Chris Coulson <chris.coulson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've also uploaded this change to the beta PPA for people not running
Precise (although it won't be built and published until tomorrow).

Anyone is free to test it once it's built (of course, we would gladly
welcome extra, more permanent beta testers - see
http://www.chriscoulson.me.uk/blog/?p=19 for ways to help)

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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:
  Fix Released

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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