Details
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Bug
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Resolution: Fixed
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P2: Important
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6.8.1
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None
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208fe51a8 (dev), 145a30d43 (6.9), d6bc75357 (6.8)
Description
Since Chromium 101, Google Chrome only shows the major version in its User-Agent string: https://www.chromium.org/updates/ua-reduction/, e.g.:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
However, QtWebEngine still uses the full Chromium version number:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/6.8.1 Chrome/122.0.6261.171 Safari/537.36
Not only is that a privacy concern via fingerprinting (one of the original motivations for the change), but more importantly, it seems to break websites: Accessing https://www.sciencedirect.com/ with the default UA displays "There was a problem providing the content you requested". (Yes, the web is broken in fun ways sometimes...)
Attachments
For Gerrit Dashboard: QTBUG-132411 | ||||||
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# | Subject | Branch | Project | Status | CR | V |
616314,3 | Use the reduced User-Agent header | dev | qt/qtwebengine | Status: MERGED | +2 | +1 |
617658,2 | Use the reduced User-Agent header | 6.9 | qt/qtwebengine | Status: MERGED | +2 | 0 |
617739,2 | Use the reduced User-Agent header | 6.8 | qt/qtwebengine | Status: MERGED | +2 | 0 |