I know about the branding issues.
But while in 1.5.x times the Browser was called "Deer Park", at least
the user-agent was "Firefox/1.5.x".
In 2.0 both changed.
Anyway. I know I can set my custom user-agent string in about:config
-> general.*
but I was just wondering, why it was changed aswell.

Zafer.


2006/11/12, Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4@gmail.com>:
> On 11/12/06, Zafer Aydogan <zafer@aydogan.de> wrote:
> > Hello List,
> >
> > I was wondering why Firefox 2.0 is containing the user-agent string
> > "BonEcho/2.0" instead of Firefox/2.0 in contrast to the previous
> > Versions like Firefox 1.5.0.7 where it remained "Firefox/Version".
>
> Branding. If you set
>
>
> PKG_OPTIONS.gecko+=official-mozilla-branding
>
> you *should* get the other. You will not be able to distribute the
> binary though.
>
> (IANAL and I haven't got much clue in this, I just remember some
> earlier noise on one of these lists).
>
> >
> > Any Idea ?
> >
>