[tor-bugs] #9041 [Tor Check]: User-Agent in torcheck

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#9041: User-Agent in torcheck
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     Reporter:  sanren       |      Owner:
         Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor Check    |    Version:
   Resolution:               |   Keywords:
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Comment (by arlolra):

 Replying to [comment:2 arma]:
 > More generally, if we were to do anything about application-level
 privacy on check, I'd want to do a Torbutton detector, so it can yell at
 you if you show up using Iceweasel or IE or the like. I think such a
 detector is designed to be hard to make you 100% accurate, but we could
 still get pretty good by just comparing user-agent with the user-agents in
 currently-recommended TBBs.

 In #1940 you seemed to be saying wontfix. We can do something very coarse
 grained like,

 {{{
  if (!(/Firefox/gi).test(window.navigator.userAgent)) yell!
 }}}

 to catch the obvious cases.

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