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Zerberus
2012-01-31 20:33:34
Still shown as generic Firefox.  Anyone?
Zerberus
2012-03-25 10:16:01
And now it's 11.0. Did you stop making a version difference due to the rapid development cycle?
Stephen Brooks
2012-03-27 17:51:33
Yeah I dunno.  Firefox's numbering is a bit stupid.  Maybe I should make a single icon for "Firefox 1x" that serves versions 10 through 19.
Zerberus
2012-03-29 13:23:52
It isn't any more stupid than Chome's (which started it all).  And Chrome doesn't seem to make version differences at all, so why did Firefox?
Stephen Brooks
2012-04-01 17:40:24
Chrome's version numbering is also stupid.  But Firefox was one of the bigger browsers so I broke it down into versions like IE and Opera.  But now I might just leave version 10+ as generic Firefox.
Zerberus
2012-04-15 11:23:53
So let's just keep it as Firefox (scratch the 'Generic' term).
Due to the rapid advance of major version numbers (a horribly stupid thing to do in my eyes) you sometimes had some problems getting a game going, because different Firefox versions competed with themselves.  And the new ESR release line doesn't make it any better.
There's another reason that versioning difference doesn't make any sense anymore: Past Firefox versions rapidly become end-of-life and shouldn't be used anymore anyway.

[Edited by Zerberus at 2012-04-15 11:25:10]
new
2012-06-15 13:00:05
I agree.  It seems to be smarter today to don't split browsers by versions.  There are too many of them to keep up-to-date with. 
Stephen Brooks
2012-10-28 19:01:49
IE used to give Firefox a cake for versions 2,3,4. Now they give them a cupcake because the versions are smaller: http://limpet.net/mbrubeck/2012/10/26/mozilla-ie10-cake.html
Daft Wullie
2012-12-04 02:15:54
Please please Stephen go back to having all versions of Firefox recorded as the same browser.  For a start I am using what will become Firefox 20 and it is shown as Firefox 2
Zerberus
2012-12-11 14:56:38
Additionally, Opera still doesn't seem to be fixed.
Stephen Brooks
2014-09-06 22:48:47
I've added Firefox 1n, 2n, 3n, 4n.
Zerberus
2014-09-07 08:40:52
Still detected as Firefox 3, though.  A lot of scripts do have problems with two-digit browser versions.

User agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0

Homogenised form: mozilla50(windowsnt61;wow64;rv:320)gecko20100101firefox320

Detected as: FireFox 3
Zerberus
2014-09-07 08:53:03
TOR Browser (legacy Fx ESR):

User agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0

Homogenised form: mozilla50(windowsnt61;rv:240)gecko20100101firefox240

Detected as: FireFox 2


Firefox ESR:

User agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0

Homogenised form: mozilla50(windowsnt61;wow64;rv:310)gecko20100101firefox310

Detected as: FireFox 3


Firefox Beta:

User agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0

Homogenised form: mozilla50(windowsnt61;wow64;rv:330)gecko20100101firefox330

Detected as: FireFox 3
Zerberus
2014-09-07 08:59:49
Firefox Aurora:

User agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0

Homogenised form: mozilla50(windowsnt61;wow64;rv:340)gecko20100101firefox340

Detected as: FireFox 3


Firefox Nightly x86:

User agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0

Homogenised form: mozilla50(windowsnt61;wow64;rv:350)gecko20100101firefox350

Detected as: FireFox 3


Firefox Nightlx x86-64:

User agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0

Homogenised form: mozilla50(windowsnt61;win64;x64;rv:350)gecko20100101firefox350

Detected as: FireFox 3
Stephen Brooks
2014-09-07 21:16:02
Thanks, I think this was a simple bug - I forgot I was stripping the slash out of the string.  Try again now.
Zerberus
2014-09-08 10:09:11
User agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0

Homogenised form: mozilla50(windowsnt61;wow64;rv:320)gecko20100101firefox320

Detected as: FireFox 3n


Might be better saying: Firefox 30 family?


Edit: Games work now with 2n, 3n, as far as I have tested.
[Edited by Zerberus at 2014-09-08 10:14:04]
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