-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/16/2015 09:00 AM, D.P.Pandya wrote: > Here you can see that IceCat shows "Windows NT 6.1"!. So, Why > IceCat is giving wrong information about OS?
This is a privacy feature, not a bug. IceCat mis-reports the OS on purpose so that IceCat users look the same as Firefox users on Windows. It's a measure against fingerprinting, a technique of user identification where information about the user's system is compiled to differentiate him from other users. In fact, the user agent string that IceCat uses is exactly the same as the one the Tor Browser Bundle uses. This is not a coincidence. You can use the User Agent Switcher extension, or adjust the user agent in about:config, if you want. But if you're going to get rid of its anti-fingerprinting, why even bother using IceCat? > The problem is websites getting wrong information about my OS. > example: Gmail account activity information, etc. In my experience, this isn't actually a problem. How is it a problem for you? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUuT+eAAoJELP1a+89AVMCBG4H/RrpJcBzdT3ih0EWffYApyqK 8MB14B9jCqagYS527iKY41Jgo2FlMeMCOPac4okawD3Yij4GclYVp0AnTPxKhLKz 9oTKw6dGNoeo6DJOTsktLEUcLxSOctxALajrHbj8uvG1G3eLq9BFs9AGlKT9LVl2 aB7oX3Ymsct/g+dfPwbxiNkTZ6OU8r9SUStGw7wmjD6TykX5HF7R21I5UmaP3zNp y08mp4IGgTNyzbEaqTc7JLSTmSWsfS4p9lNZSkSOBQqckdVYHjSuU0zL1c1ZJmH1 4c2ZvxMq4Abv6Zx6F+VQ2Kl1xBqLosAuhlV/54fG3LqhYEpjglnyv5Mvq4Q4+pU= =b4wO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
