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Detected from HTTP header. Pretty simple fix, but has the potential for breakage (as with any UA change!). For instance: <code>Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100106  
Detected from HTTP header. Pretty simple fix, but has the potential for breakage (as with any UA change!). For instance: <code>Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100106  
Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.7</code>. Remedies: remove the last point digit in the Firefox and Gecko versions, and the Gecko build date; for Linux, remove distribution and version; possibly remove CPU. Windows is actually the best since the OS version string only identifies the major version (e.g. XP).
Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.7</code>. Remedies: remove the last point digit in the Firefox and Gecko versions, and the Gecko build date; for Linux, remove distribution and version; possibly remove CPU. Windows is actually the least unique since the OS version string only identifies the major version (e.g. XP), and by far the majority of users are on it.


== HTTP ACCEPT ==
== HTTP ACCEPT ==
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