Public bug reported:
As shown on http://panopticlick.eff.org
The useragent string "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.2)
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2" is too unique and in combination with a
fairly unique plugin list this allows browser fingerprint tracking,
which is bad for privacy.
I would suggest this change:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0
This removes makes the version number less unique. Also the Gecko
version could be made a bit more generic.
** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Firefox user-agent string is too unique
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