Comments for Daniel Witte http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte Real life ftw. Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:26:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on User Agent string changes coming in Firefox 4 by Add-ons Review Update – Week of 2010/09/14 « Mozilla Add-ons Blog http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte/2010/08/24/user-agent-string-changes-coming-in-firefox-4/comment-page-1/#comment-269 Add-ons Review Update – Week of 2010/09/14 « Mozilla Add-ons Blog Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:26:31 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte/?p=30#comment-269 [...] As of Beta 5, Firefox has a new User Agent String. [...] [...] As of Beta 5, Firefox has a new User Agent String. [...]

]]> Comment on User Agent string changes coming in Firefox 4 by Stephan Sokolow http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte/2010/08/24/user-agent-string-changes-coming-in-firefox-4/comment-page-1/#comment-243 Stephan Sokolow Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:39:39 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte/?p=30#comment-243 Given that my UA string is one of the two most personally-unique things Panopticlick can detect when NoScript is doing its job (HTTP_ACCEPT being the other), I'd think that the less data we can get away with leaking, the better. https://panopticlick.eff.org/ Given that my UA string is one of the two most personally-unique things Panopticlick can detect when NoScript is doing its job (HTTP_ACCEPT being the other), I’d think that the less data we can get away with leaking, the better.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

]]> Comment on User Agent string changes coming in Firefox 4 by Tech Thursday: Vote Pacman, periodic HTML5, robot laws, and realtime web | The Online Blog http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte/2010/08/24/user-agent-string-changes-coming-in-firefox-4/comment-page-1/#comment-234 Tech Thursday: Vote Pacman, periodic HTML5, robot laws, and realtime web | The Online Blog Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:42:44 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte/?p=30#comment-234 [...] Mozilla announced User Agent document.write(unescape('%73%74%72%69%6e%67')); document.write(unescape('%63%68%61%6e%... [...] [...] Mozilla announced User Agent document.write(unescape('%73%74%72%69%6e%67')); document.write(unescape('%63%68%61%6e%… [...]

]]> Comment on User Agent string changes coming in Firefox 4 by Get to Know Your New User Agent Strings | Programming Blog http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte/2010/08/24/user-agent-string-changes-coming-in-firefox-4/comment-page-1/#comment-214 Get to Know Your New User Agent Strings | Programming Blog Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:15:03 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte/?p=30#comment-214 [...] id will show up. This build id will be different for each platform. Mozilla developer Daniel Witte covers the changes in depth on his blog. There’s also a more complete reference on the Moz Dev Center [...] [...] id will show up. This build id will be different for each platform. Mozilla developer Daniel Witte covers the changes in depth on his blog. There’s also a more complete reference on the Moz Dev Center [...]

]]> Comment on User Agent string changes coming in Firefox 4 by ant http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte/2010/08/24/user-agent-string-changes-coming-in-firefox-4/comment-page-1/#comment-211 ant Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:09:42 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte/?p=30#comment-211 Thank you Mozilla for doing something about this ridiculous piece of cruft. Now if only Webkit would shorten their 50-mile-long UA string too... Thank you Mozilla for doing something about this ridiculous piece of cruft. Now if only Webkit would shorten their 50-mile-long UA string too…

]]> Comment on User Agent string changes coming in Firefox 4 by Media Blog » Blog Archive » Get to Know Your New User Agent Strings http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte/2010/08/24/user-agent-string-changes-coming-in-firefox-4/comment-page-1/#comment-204 Media Blog » Blog Archive » Get to Know Your New User Agent Strings Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:46:05 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte/?p=30#comment-204 [...] id will show up. This build id will be different for each platform. Mozilla developer Daniel Witte covers the changes in depth on his blog. There’s also a more complete reference on the Moz Dev Center [...] [...] id will show up. This build id will be different for each platform. Mozilla developer Daniel Witte covers the changes in depth on his blog. There’s also a more complete reference on the Moz Dev Center [...]

]]> Comment on User Agent string changes coming in Firefox 4 by Tony Mechelynck http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte/2010/08/24/user-agent-string-changes-coming-in-firefox-4/comment-page-1/#comment-203 Tony Mechelynck Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:10:44 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte/?p=30#comment-203 oops... "I'm still seeing this in (insert buildID here)" — I forgot that almost anything between less-than and greter-than will be removed. oops… “I’m still seeing this in (insert buildID here)” — I forgot that almost anything between less-than and greter-than will be removed.

]]> Comment on User Agent string changes coming in Firefox 4 by Omega X http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte/2010/08/24/user-agent-string-changes-coming-in-firefox-4/comment-page-1/#comment-202 Omega X Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:08:01 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte/?p=30#comment-202 I also agree with the call to drop Mozilla/5.0. This is absolutely useless if it doesn't mean anything and doesn't break anything. I also agree with the call to drop Mozilla/5.0. This is absolutely useless if it doesn’t mean anything and doesn’t break anything.

]]> Comment on User Agent string changes coming in Firefox 4 by Tony Mechelynck http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte/2010/08/24/user-agent-string-changes-coming-in-firefox-4/comment-page-1/#comment-201 Tony Mechelynck Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:07:59 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte/?p=30#comment-201 fowl: if script has access to it, there's no fingerprinting gain; and if it goes away from Help=>About, there's a debugging loss (especially when debugging Thunderbird, which cannot report to Bugzilla, or when saying in a later comment "Please don't close it WFM, I'm still seeing this in ") fowl: if script has access to it, there’s no fingerprinting gain; and if it goes away from Help=>About, there’s a debugging loss (especially when debugging Thunderbird, which cannot report to Bugzilla, or when saying in a later comment “Please don’t close it WFM, I’m still seeing this in “)

]]> Comment on User Agent string changes coming in Firefox 4 by Get to Know Your New User Agent Strings | Tech Alps http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte/2010/08/24/user-agent-string-changes-coming-in-firefox-4/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Get to Know Your New User Agent Strings | Tech Alps Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:02:24 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/dwitte/?p=30#comment-200 [...] id will show up. This build id will be different for each platform. Mozilla developer Daniel Witte covers the changes in depth on his blog. There’s also a more complete reference on the Moz Dev Center [...] [...] id will show up. This build id will be different for each platform. Mozilla developer Daniel Witte covers the changes in depth on his blog. There’s also a more complete reference on the Moz Dev Center [...]

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