Details
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Bug
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Resolution: Unresolved
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P2: Important
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6.8.1
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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...)