{"id":145,"date":"2007-07-04T22:11:03","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T20:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.glandium.org\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2010-01-27T08:52:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T07:52:32","slug":"contest-for-the-most-stupid-user-agent-string","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Contest for the most stupid user agent string"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=384721\">Camino<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=386113\">Seamonkey<\/a>, Epiphany is joining the <a href=\"http:\/\/svn.gnome.org\/viewcvs\/epiphany\/branches\/gnome-2-18\/data\/weasel-ua-pref.js.in?view=markup&pathrev=7101\">let's have a dumb UA club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of actually fixing the problem at its root by forcing stupid people <b>not<\/b> to try to match Firefox, by <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=385999\">totally removing Firefox in Firefox's UA<\/a>, which would definitely have had a good result, they go the opposite direction.<\/p>\n<p>If I see that crap coming in Debian in either epiphany, galeon or kazehakase, or any other browser based on libxul, I promise I'll hack the thing that puts the user-agent together so that it suppresses all occurrences of Firefox from it.<\/p>\n<p>If only people at mozilla were as thoughtful as <a href=\"http:\/\/home.kairo.at\/blog\/2007-06\/the_fight_for_the_suckiest_ua_string\">Robert Kaiser<\/a>...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Camino and Seamonkey, Epiphany is joining the let&#8217;s have a dumb UA club. Instead of actually fixing the problem at its root by forcing stupid people not to try to match Firefox, by totally removing Firefox in Firefox&#8217;s UA, which would definitely have had a good result, they go the opposite direction. If I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xulrunner","tag-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}