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From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: icecat: correct useragent to GNU GuixSD.
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 12:01:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEwRq=p330SmABdCgutR8ZWTWuHQzMuC43J8SMnXs4+4XUhOXw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tv0un7w.fsf@gnu.org>

On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> wrote:
> Attached simple patch fixes spreading of theh terribly ignoring lie that
> I would be running Windows NT.
>
> I'm probably displayng unimaginable ignorance here but it's beyond me
> why a project like Firefox would hardcode such a default.

That's probably because sites often don't give you same thing when
they detected the useragent isn't a MS one...

The linux kernel do the same wrt ACPI, for the same reasons

-- 
Vincent Legoll

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-10 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-10  9:18 [PATCH] gnu: icecat: correct useragent to GNU GuixSD Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-09-10 10:01 ` Vincent Legoll [this message]
2016-09-10 11:47 ` ng0
2016-09-10 12:39 ` Brendan Tildesley
2016-09-10 12:52   ` ng0
2016-09-10 12:47 ` Alex Vong
2016-09-10 12:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-10 14:27   ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen

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