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Re: Information shown by User-Agent header item

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On 28/05/2025 12:26, Wolfgang wrote:
> By default, the header item "User-Agent" shows "Mozilla Thunderbird"
> only without giving any further information. Since in many cases, it
> would be helpful to see some more information, e.g. the version
> number and the operating system, I should like to recommend
> performing the following steps for making the User-Agent header item
> more verbose:
> 
> 1. Open Settings | General | Config Editor
> 
> 2. By searching "UserAgent" you will find:
> 
>           mailnews.headers.useMinimalUserAgent    true
> 
> 3. Toggle it to "false".
> 
> 4. Close Settings and Config Editor.
> 
> Now, the User-Agent header item has become actually verbose. On my
> computer, it says:
> 
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:138.0) Gecko/20100101
> Thunderbird/138.0
> 
> Best regards,
> Wolfgang
> 

FYI, this is a privacy feature, it only changes how your information is 
shown on other people's computers, not how other people's information is 
shown on your computer.

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