"general.useragent.extra.*" no longer used?

[kmc]

I've read from here that

Starting with Mozilla 1.8 beta2, the best way for applications, vendors, and extensions (if needed) to add to default preferences to add VendorProductTokens or VendorComments is to add a default preference of the form general.useragent.extra.identifier. All of the general.useragent.extra.* preferences will have their string values added to the User-Agent string in alphabetical order by identifier. For example:

pref("general.useragent.extra.megabrowser", "MegaCorpBrowser/1.0 (MegaCorp, Inc.)");
pref("general.useragent.extra.tinydistro", "TinyDistroLinux/2.3");

However, I've tried it and it doesn't work. Has it been removed?

Thanks.

[Bluefang]

Yes, it was removed.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581008

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko_ ... _reference

[kmc]

So, I want to have something more specific in my UA like
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20100918 Firefox/4.0b7pre 20100918052622

it's no longer possible?

[Bluefang]

Not unless you completely override it using general.useragent.override or User Agent Switcher.

[kmc]

Thanks Bluefang.

[Tony-E]

The general.useragent.override preference may be made temporary or even removed. A final decision does not yet appear to have been made yet, but see these bug reports.
Bug 582421 – Make general.useragent.override temporary
Bug 589361 – Allow UA string changes by API call only

[pal-moz]

So, I want to have something more specific in my UA like
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20100918 Firefox/4.0b7pre 20100918052622

it's no longer possible?

if you want to add Build ID, use Nightly Tester Tools.

[normal UA]
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b6pre) Gecko/20100913 Firefox/4.0b6pre

[UA with NTT]
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b6pre) Gecko/20100913 Firefox/4.0b6pre ID:20100913041656

[Bluefang]

AFAIK NTT doesn't change the UAID. It just adds the build id to the title bar.

[pal-moz]

misreading