David E. Ross wrote:
The user agent (UA) string for each Mozilla application indicates the Gecko version. The Gecko version is the number following "rv:".
Aha! I had noticed the "Gecko/20100101" bit but that wasn't helpful. This is.
For SeaMonkey, the UA string is displayed by going to the menu bar and selecting either [Help > About SeaMonkey] or [Help > Troubleshooting Information]. For Thunderbird, the UA string is displayed by going to the menu bar and selecting [Help > Troubleshooting Information]. Not having Firefox installed, I assume that its UA string is displayed the same way as for Thunderbird. Note that the Mozilla developers are trying to deprecate version numbers. <http://www.mozilla.org/> (the Web page from which Firefox can be downloaded) does not indicate the current Firefox version number. <http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/> (the Web page from which Thunderbird can be downloaded) indicates the version number in a dark green font against a medium green background. Only SeaMonkey has not yet yielded to this trend. The developers tried to eliminate the Gecko version number from the UA strings, but that failed when too many Web sties would not recognize Firefox. I think, however, the effort to eliminate the Gecko version number is continuing at a slower pace.
I'm scratching my head over this one. Why eliminate version numbers? I can understand preferring program version over Gecko version, but I can't figure out why they'd want to eliminate version numbers entirely.
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