Thunderbird bz 579023 still not fixed even though there is an upstream fix available

[Richard Zidlicky]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 07:39:37AM +0100, mike cloaked wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Mail Lists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:
> > On 04/27/2010 05:58 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >
> >
> >  The OP had an issue w. thunderbird - which many find to be a pretty
> > decent mail client.
> >
> >  This thread has morphed ...
> >
> >  As for Firefox, I'd actually prefer to put fedora effort behind
> > chromium - google-chrome is an order of magnitude better than firefox -
> > if chromium can be made comparable we don't need to fuss about firefox -
> > lets fuss about chromium/google-chrome instead :-)
> >
> 
> One more point which may not be directly on thread but which IS
> important - many people use their browser for online banking and a
> good number of banks will not allow login from any browser not on
> their "approved" list.  

thats why many popular browsers still use spoofed user-agent ids by 
default.

If the banks do adhere to standards there is no use for checking user-agent.

Richard