Re: Firefox 1.5 released
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Re: Firefox 1.5 released

From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Date: Wed Nov 30 2005 - 17:37:52 CET

McKirahan wrote:

> "McKirahan" <News@McKirahan.com> wrote [...]
>> "Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" <PointedEars@web.de> wrote [...]
> But then I looked at what "navigator.userAgent" revealed

or the User-Agent HTTP request header
 
> for FF1.5:
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv: 1.8)
> Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
>
> for FF1.0.7:
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv: 1.7.12)
> Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1..0.7

It's

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922
Firefox/1.0.7 (Debian package 1.0.7-1) Mnenhy/0.7.2.0

here. Are there really two dots in your the Firefox's version string?
 
> Mozilla release versions ... Firefox versions ... huh?

What's the matter? Firefox/1.0.7 is a browser based on Mozilla/5.0 Release
Version 1.7.12 and Firefox/1.5 is a browser based on Mozilla/5.0 Release
Version 1.8. Nothing new here. Try

<URL:http://www.pointedears.de/scripts/test/ObjectInspector/nightly/latest/index?core=navigator&root=navigator>

PointedEars
Received on Sat Dec 3 04:33:40 2005