[Bug 897794] [NEW] Firefox 8 User Agent String "Ubuntu; " addition causes "application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml" download

[Kiall Mac Innes]

Public bug reported:

The patch added by Chris Coulson in the FF 8 packages to add "Ubutnu;"
to FireFox's User Agent string has caused some sites to start offering a
download of a "application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml" file.

This change seems to have caused an issue with 51degrees.com's .NET
Mobile Framework. Visiting a site that uses the framework now prompts to
download an "application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml" file.

Obviously, this is likely the fault of the framework, and not Ubuntu.
But I felt it should be logged, and I could not find any launchpad bug
regarding this change.

debian/patches/ubuntu-ua-string-changes.patch
> Description: Add "Ubuntu" to the platform part of the UA string
> Author: Chris Coulson <chris.coulson at canonical.com>

The User Agent changed from:

> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1

to

> Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/8.0

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

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