** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/934887
Title:
Firefox user-agent string is too unique
Status in Mozilla Firefox:
Fix Released
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
As shown on http://panopticlick.eff.org
The useragent string "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64;
rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2" is too unique and in
combination with a fairly unique plugin list this allows browser
fingerprint tracking, which is bad for privacy.
I would suggest this change:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/10.0.2
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0
This removes makes the version number less unique. Also the Gecko
version could be made a bit more generic.
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