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At what point are Firefox going to drop having a unique user-agent and just adopt chromes? There are so many support issues they could avoid if they just did th
by worble 3y ago
At what point are Firefox going to drop having a unique user-agent and just adopt chromes? There are so many support issues they could avoid if they just did this, I really don't see what the benefit is anymore.
- realusername 3y agoI'm not against the idea personally, the user agent doesn't have a purpose anymore and probably is the number one cause of "bugs" only affecting Firefox. It's the same issue on mobile as well, Google still serves the dumbed down search version to Firefox whereas the one they serve on Chrome fully works with a user agent change.
- mdaniel 3y agowhat's old is new again: https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/ https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/ so, what I'm hearing is that FF should change its current U-A from `Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:120.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/120.0` to just `Mozilla/5.0` and skip the pretense :-) In all seriousness, Chrome/Chromium actually had a plan to do some U-A simplification <https://www.chromium.org/updates/ua-reduction/ https://www.chromium.org/updates/ua-reduction/> but it doesn't appear they're going as far as evicting the Chrome branding from it, nor (confusingly enough) dropping the Safari misnomer (since they don't use WebKit anymore)
- wkat4242 3y agoThe funny thing is that changing of the UA fixes most problems I had with office 365 in Firefox. Like the basic view appearing sometimes, or the drag and drop off files not working. So in other words: there's nothing wrong with the technical implementation of the browser engine, but Microsoft consciously degrades the experience for me if they know I run firefox.