Bug#561927: iceweasel: Can Iceweasel pretend to be Firefox to services such as safebrowsing ?

[Mike Hommey]

Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.5.6-1
Severity: serious
Justification: This should be resolved before release

Iceweasel current replaces firefox with iceweasel in various service urls
in configuration. Some other service urls such as safebrowsing have not been
addressed yet, leading to bugs such as #518357.

The question is whether we can have iceweasel pretend to be firefox to such
services, which are related to agreements between MoCo and third parties.

I'm filing this bug to avoid forgetting about this issue, and to track the
investigation as it goes.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils                   3.2.2      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  fontconfig                    2.6.0-4.1  generic font configuration library
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.3-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.18.5-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnspr4-0d                   4.8.2-1    NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.2-5    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  procps                        1:3.2.8-2  /proc file system utilities
ii  psmisc                        22.8-1     utilities that use the proc file s
ii  xulrunner-1.9.1               1.9.1.6-1  XUL + XPCOM application runner

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
pn  latex-xft-fonts      <none>              (no description available)
ii  libkrb53             1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13 Transitional library package/krb4 
pn  mozplugger           <none>              (no description available)
pn  ttf-mathematica4.1   <none>              (no description available)
ii  xfonts-mathml        3                   Type1 Symbol font for MathML
pn  xprint               <none>              (no description available)
ii  xulrunner-1.9.1-gnom 1.9.1.6-1           Support for GNOME in xulrunner app

-- no debconf information