[Bug 709125] Re: User agent doesn't include Ubuntu in it so apt.ubuntu.com doesn't work

[Chris Coulson]

I've spoken to somebody from Mozilla, and this won't be fixed by adding
vendor information back to the user agent string (see
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572650 for some idea of why
this has changed, and this is not the sort of thing we'll be vendor
patching).

In addition to that, as I pointed out above - the vendor identification
in the UA string has been a constant source of problems where websites
misdetect the browser on Ubuntu and display incorrect content (ie,
mobile content).

At best, I can probably add an extra header to the HTTP packets when
communicating with apt.ubuntu.com (and this is what has been recommended
to me) - but this would also need a server-side fix too.

** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #572650
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572650

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  User agent doesn't include Ubuntu in it so apt.ubuntu.com doesn't work