On 9/16/2011 2:44 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:

Justin Wood (:Callek)<[email protected]>  2011-09-15 17:27:41 PDT ---

No it is a "Core Gecko" bug, we use the |general.useragent.compatMode.firefox|
preference for this.

It also can't be labeled "compatible" because many(!) UA sniffing scripts treat
that as suddenly meaning MSIE. We only have Firefox listed in the UA due to
many broken UA sniffing scripts.

We *STILL* have SeaMonkey in the UA for the very reason that we do not want to
lie to people who care to check it properly.

Given the above comments, and those by the Core Developers I'm marking this
WONTFIX, please no more advocacy in this bug.

I am very disappointed.  However, there is still hope : how would
you react to a proposal that the user preference

        Edit / Preferences / Advanced / HTTP Networking /User Agent String / 
Advertise Firefox compatibility

default to<unchecked>  ?

I would be against it, we enabled it due to soo many (especially popular) website being broken due to "bad" browser sniffing, that is automatically fixed by enabling that.

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~Justin Wood (Callek)

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