Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 04:00:03PM +0200, Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > The usual crap is basic substring match. But if we start adding cruft
> > today, we will end up with more cruft in a few years, when it will be
> > be necessary to match user agent sniffing for $OTHER_BROWSER. We already
> > have Mozilla/5.0 for this stupid reason, and it's not going to disappear.
> > Endorsing stupid user agent sniffing could also mean we should remove Linux
> > from the UA and put Windows instead, as some really stupid site prevent
> > Linux users to go in.
> 
>  Right, I personally have to visit web sites requiring IE, so I'm using
>  the User Agent Switcher extension.
> 
>  But it would be best if we could express that xulrunner-1.9 based
>  browsers should inherit the Firefox handling for such sites; it's not
>  exactly the same thing as pretending to be IE or Windows or Mozilla/5.0
>  compatible: there might be dozens of browsers based on xulrunner-1.9,
>  but we don't want each web site to list it in a case statement.

There is already something for this, it's the "Gecko" string. It's
even what Safari uses, not "Firefox". And it seems enough for them.

Mike