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Rava · 08-07-2014, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by frankbell

(I really don't care what I send anywhere else, though earlier today it mucked up on another computer and said "macos" when, in fact, I was using Mint).

LOL.... well, technically both Mac OS and Linux are *NIX, yes?

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Originally Posted by frankbell

http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ will tell you what your user agent string is sending.

Ohhh.... kay...
I now run some kind of zombie apocalypse browser then, cause I get this:

Code:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20140618 Firefox/24.0 PaleMoon/24.6.2

Me thinks Gecko/2014061 is correct. Should I keep it like so, or is .linuxquestions.org confused due to me running Firefox/24.0 AND PaleMoon/24.6.2?

Dunno if that's right like so. Since PaleMoon is based on Firefox... dunno if the Firefox/24.0 is correct, me thinks Pale Moon is based on a newer version of FFx...

Now, what is the technically and identifier correct info?

Both Firefox AND PaleMoon are Gecko based, so sure that part is OK.

Then again, PaleMoon is FFx based... But I have no clue if that should be in that info as well or only the Pale Moon part without the FFsx part...

Code:

X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0

Should the "rv" part here more correctly give the kernel version and not again the FFx version (At least I presume it is the FFX version...)
Since for X AND Linux, sure V24.0 are both wrong...

Are the rules about such optimized browser versions and useragent info put down somewhere RFC style?

...

I never would have guessed that by using an optimized FFx variant (which makes Rava a happy camper due to improved performance) would get me in such issues...

jeremy · 08-08-2014, 10:13 AM

For clarification, LQ doesn't care (or even parse for) the browser you are using. There's a regex that looks for a list of distributions and if one is found the post is tagged with that corresponding icon (or the generic penguin if the word Linux appears with no additional information).

--jeremy

Rava · 08-08-2014, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by jeremy

For clarification, LQ doesn't care (or even parse for) the browser you are using. There's a regex that looks for a list of distributions and if one is found the post is tagged with that corresponding icon (or the generic penguin if the word Linux appears with no additional information).

Okay, so what do I need to do to get LQ to realize that I run Slackware Linux, and not some unknown generic Linux?

jeremy · 08-08-2014, 10:19 AM

I've answered that here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...8/#post5217565

--jeremy

Rava · 08-08-2014, 10:26 AM

I answered in the other thread...

(P.S: how does one delete a thread? or is it not possible?)

jeremy · 08-08-2014, 10:28 AM

The *browser* you are using has no impact and is not something we check for. The only thing that is parsed is the User Agent string and that is only for a list of predetermined existing text strings based on distributions we have an icon for.

--jeremy

Rava · 08-08-2014, 10:52 AM

^

Added the general.useragent.vendor with the string of "Slackware" and now all is as I wanted it to be.

Thanks for the help and heads up!