On 2004-02-15, Konrad Mader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the Mozilla-Browser and Mail-Client show Mozilla-Version and OS-Version 
> to everybody like this:
> "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113"
>
> I think that is insecure.

It isn't really.  But maybe you don't want people knowing what browser you
use.

> It is posible to edit that?

yes, it's a pref you can set. The easiest way is to get an extension like
http://uabar.mozdev.org/

Note that if you do that, you might have problems with the Java plugin,
and with websites that detect what browser you are using in order to send
different content.

-- 
Michael
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