Ubuntu maverick is still affected by this bug. According to 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko_user_agent_string_reference the string 
should be:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 
Firefox/3.6.13

but it now is:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 
Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.13

Some websites don't think this browser is firefox, and in one particular
case I got redirected to the mobile version of a website. On reading up
on this issue in this bug report, some people think it's not that
important, but it's kinda stupid to have to report to webmasters that I
cannot see their website on firefox under linux. They discard it as
being a niche issue and don't address it. We could make a case to such
webmasters if ubuntu at least followed the instructions for the user
agent string set by the mozilla developers.

case in point: http://www.crmart.be redirects me to http://m.crmart.be
while on all other browsers (os x, windows, but also chromium on linux)
redirects correctly to /nl/index.php

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  Firefox user-agent is malformed

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