I just finished installed Ubuntu 11.04. When I point my web browser to http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ , then it reports my User Agent as :
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
I get the same results with Firefox 4.0/7.0/8.0 & Chromium 14 & Konqueror which leads me to believe that it is an OS issue, rather than a browser specific issue
I have tried Firefox User Agent Switcher, didn't work
I have tried specifying the User Agent setting when launching Chrome, that didn't work either
I suspect it is because those extensions / options alters the browsers User Agent settings in Javascript and not the underlying header that the browser sends. See http://browserspy.dk/useragent.php for the 2 different user agents.
Anybody have idea any ideas how I can update it?
Firebug says:
Host: whatsmyuseragent.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Proxy-Authorization: Basic Hello Bob