Bug 210308 – www-client/mozilla-firefox w/ USE=iceweasel has wrong browser identification

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alec Meyers 2008-02-16 00:27:52 UTC]

Iceweasel should identify itself as "Iceweasel," not "BonEcho."



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge mozilla-firefox with "iceweasel" USE flag.
2. Start Iceweasel
3. Type in "about:" in the addressbar
Actual Results:  
The user agent string is:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080208 BonEcho/2.0.0.12

Expected Results:  
The user agent string should be:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080208 Iceweasel/2.0.0.12

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2008-02-16 06:50:41 UTC]

Uh this flag is a horrible idea altogether...

[Comment 2 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2008-02-29 15:02:51 UTC]

Fixed, thanks.

[Comment 3 Alec Meyers 2009-08-31 00:48:27 UTC]

Reopening the bug - as of Firefox 3.5, it shows up as "Shiretoko"

[Comment 4 Jory A. Pratt 2009-09-26 04:07:10 UTC]

Please use icecat for all further renaming of firefox, it has many features that are not avaliable in normal mozilla-firefox and actually deserves to be rebranded. icecat is avaliable in the mozilla overlay and will be added to the tree in next few days.

[Comment 5 Alec Meyers 2009-09-26 15:44:13 UTC]

Actually, I used Iceweasel just because I liked the name and the logo :(

[Comment 6 Jory A. Pratt 2009-10-25 16:35:09 UTC]

iceweasel useflag has been drop'd in favor of icecat, it is currently in the tree.