[Bug 596812] [NEW] Reduce the amount of data sent in HTTP requests

[John Drinkwater]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox

Mozilla is currently reducing, for the sakes of privacy and bandwidth, the amount of data sent per HTTP request by trimming inessential text from the useragent string.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572650

I notice Ubuntu’s Firefox adds ‘Ubuntu/XX.XX (codename)’ into the useragent, and that beyond the privacy issue, there is redundant information here.
For example, Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) is sent in each request from my system.

Suggested Fixex.
1. Remove ‘(%codename%)’ by unsetting general.useragent.vendorComment
2. Consider removing the distro revision by unsetting general.useragent.vendorSub
3. Consider removing Ubuntu altogether by unsetting general.useragent.vendor

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: privacy

** Tags added: privacy

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Reduce the amount of data sent in HTTP requests
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/596812
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