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Information shown by User-Agent header item

From Wolfgang <wm@ariannuccia.de>
Newsgroups alt.comp.software.thunderbird
Subject Information shown by User-Agent header item
Date 2025-05-28 12:26 +0200
Organization Ariannuccia
Message-ID <m9o94jFmdt4U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)

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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

-- 
Quem não tem cão caça com gato.

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Information shown by User-Agent header item Wolfgang <wm@ariannuccia.de> - 2025-05-28 12:26 +0200
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    Re: Information shown by User-Agent header item "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2025-05-28 15:29 -0700
      Re: Information shown by User-Agent header item Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2025-05-29 01:00 +0200

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