Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

[Loïc Minier]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008, Mike Hommey wrote:
> The usual crap is basic substring match. But if we start adding cruft
> today, we will end up with more cruft in a few years, when it will be
> be necessary to match user agent sniffing for $OTHER_BROWSER. We already
> have Mozilla/5.0 for this stupid reason, and it's not going to disappear.
> Endorsing stupid user agent sniffing could also mean we should remove Linux
> from the UA and put Windows instead, as some really stupid site prevent
> Linux users to go in.

 Right, I personally have to visit web sites requiring IE, so I'm using
 the User Agent Switcher extension.

 But it would be best if we could express that xulrunner-1.9 based
 browsers should inherit the Firefox handling for such sites; it's not
 exactly the same thing as pretending to be IE or Windows or Mozilla/5.0
 compatible: there might be dozens of browsers based on xulrunner-1.9,
 but we don't want each web site to list it in a case statement.

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Loïc Minier