Fedora Useragent

[COKEDUDE]

Why can't the forum see I am using Fedora? It just says I am using Linux. I am using the default Firefox that came with Fedora. I am not using a special build or anything.

[TheNosh]

Originally Posted by COKEDUDE

Why can't the forum see I am using Fedora? It just says I am using Linux. I am using the default Firefox that came with Fedora. I am not using a special build or anything.

You haven't done anything with the user agent switcher extension have you?

[DBelton]

When they went with Firefox 4, they didn't change the default user agent in firefox to specify fedora.

You can change it yourself if you wish to.

[COKEDUDE]

Originally Posted by TheNosh

You haven't done anything with the user agent switcher extension have you?

No.

Originally Posted by DBelton

When they went with Firefox 4, they didn't change the default user agent in firefox to specify fedora.

You can change it yourself if you wish to.

Then how was the live cd able to tell the I was using firefox? It uses Firefox 4.

[Dan]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...gent-switcher/

Then you can custom fit your reported on-line profile. Comes in very handy when some organizations ... like the brainless boneheads over at At&T ... fail to design and test a standards compliant website. <....>

[TheNosh]

Originally Posted by DBelton

You can change it yourself if you wish to.

True. Chrome doesn't show which Distro you use. That's not something that matters much to me, but I got bored and tweaked it anyway.

Originally Posted by COKEDUDE

Then how was the live cd able to tell the I was using firefox? It uses Firefox 4.

The Firefox source for Linux, when compiled, sets the user agent by default to Firefox with Linux. No distro is specified. That's something repo maintainers would have to modify when packaging it. So far, for Firefox 4, they've not done that.

You may tweak it yourself if you desire.

[RupertPupkin]

I was wondering why the little avatar was showing a generic Linux Tux instead of the Fedora symbol on my posts, it seemed strange that it stopped working in F15. Anyway, the User Agent Switcher add-on fixes that; in the Options panel just create a New User Agent, name it and change the User Agent field from this

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.1)...

to this

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.1)...

then select to use that new User Agent in Firefox's Tools menu. That'll have to do until the Fedora packagers update the Firefox package.

[TheNosh]

Originally Posted by RupertPupkin

That'll have to do until the Fedora packagers update the Firefox package.

If they do at all. They likely will, but it doesn't add any real function to your browser or your system beyond these little forum icons. Reporting to the rest of the web which particular distro you happen to be using is only a sensible priority (and I'm taking some pretty massive creative liberties to use the word "sensible" in this context) for a distro with an inflated ego like Ubuntu with its childish pipe dream of toppling Windows' hold on the market. (Just sayin')

I suppose the argument could be made that it provides more thorough brand recognition, thus making the system present itself as more polished, but that's about as far as distro specific user agent strings go in terms of functionality as far as I'm aware. Nothing in the system will work better or worse by making the user agent report as Fedora.

That said, they probably will update the package to have the modified user agent string soon enough.

Originally Posted by RupertPupkin

I was wondering why the little avatar was showing a generic Linux Tux instead of the Fedora symbol on my posts, it seemed strange that it stopped working in F15. Anyway, the User Agent Switcher add-on fixes that; in the Options panel just create a New User Agent, name it and change the User Agent field from this

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.1)...

to this

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.1)...

then select to use that new User Agent in Firefox's Tools menu. That'll have to do until the Fedora packagers update the Firefox package.

i dunno if they will update it, not now since Mozilla is gonna be quicker at rolling there releases out the door. there's no 4.0.2 planned either, so the only real update to firefox will be to FF5 when its out in late June

[sea]

I dont see the plugin at all :|
It is installed though, and addon bar is acivated either, but its not to be seen..

Originally Posted by eRats

I dont see the plugin at all :|
It is installed though, and addon bar is acivated either, but its not to be seen..

it might be only visible on the status bar which sucks really cause a lot would prefer it disabled.

[sea]

Its neither in tool- nor in status bar visible to me. Anyways, as its just a gimmick i'll deinstall it.
There are other things that need to run

[Dan]

It will be located under the tools menu.

thats strange, dunno where it is then, but i have had a similiar problem with ABP in FF4 . the icon only shows in the status bar akk Addon-bar so i have to have the status bar enabled

[DBelton]

Originally Posted by Dan

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...gent-switcher/

Then you can custom fit your reported on-line profile. Comes in very handy when some organizations ... like the brainless boneheads over at At&T ... fail to design and test a standards compliant website. <....>

I see you have the same results that I had with AT&T

I asked the people at AT&T one time why they didn't support an operating system that they wrote, and they thought I was nuts. They only support windows and mac, but unix happened to come right out of their own bell labs (it was before the big breakup of AT&T)

But, yep.. The user agent switcher is available in the Tools menu. Look for Default User Agent