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Firefox 8 released

Posted Nov 12, 2011 18:09 UTC (Sat) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281)
In reply to: Firefox 8 released by RobSeace
Parent article: Firefox 8 released

I could be wrong, but I believe the user agent doesn't say that you are on a 64-bit browser (it does say the OS, but not the browser build itself). So I'm not sure this is possible.

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Firefox 8 released

Posted Nov 12, 2011 18:39 UTC (Sat) by RobSeace (subscriber, #4435) [Link]

It does distinguish... From my current 8.0 64-bit:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0

And, from 32-bit 7.0 (the newest 32-bit build I've got lying around):

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0

Firefox 8 released

Posted Nov 12, 2011 18:51 UTC (Sat) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]

Ah, interesting!

Ok, I filed a bug,

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702030

I think it's a very good idea to do this, thanks for the suggestion :)