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bug#58011: Jitsi, Bowser, and IceCat's user agent string


From: Michael McMahon
Subject: bug#58011: Jitsi, Bowser, and IceCat's user agent string
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 14:37:08 -0400
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/91.11.0

I received a report that an IceCat user was not able to use Jitsi with IceCat 102. They reported that changing the user agent string to Firefox fixed their issue.

IceCat 102 should work with Jitsi, but the way that bowser reads the user agent string returns that the browser is IceCat which it is not familiar with. Rather than submitting patches to to every browser check to correctly identify IceCat as a Firefox fork, I would recommend changing the user agent string back to Firefox as it once was [1] to correct this issue as well as others that have not been reported.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2015-01/msg00019.html

Abrowser uses Firefox in the user agent string and this problem does not occur with Jitsi or bowser.

IceCat 102's user agent string looks like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 IceCat/102.0

Abrowser 104's user agent string looks like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:104.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/104.0

Best,
Michael McMahon | Web Developer, Free Software Foundation
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