The decision to avoid the official "Firefox" name has other
consequences.  Our port currently sends this

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1)
Gecko/20061101 BonEcho/2.0

In contrast, an "official" Linux port sends this:

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1)
Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

You can probably see where this is going... Our users will get "Your
browser is not supported, please use Firefox v1.5 or later" on sites
that use the user-agent string to figure out what browser the user is
on. And therefore the

Are we allowed to use FireFox in the UA string as long as we don't use
it in the titlebar or Help About, or are the Mozilla folk really that
stuck on things?


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