Current Build id for trunk is Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/200707060404 Minefield/3.0a7pre it should be YYYYMMDDHH and is YYYYMMDDHHHH ?

For Mac: Using about: in location bar: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/200707060404 Minefield/3.0a7pre In the About dialog: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/2007070604 Minefield/3.0a7pre This build started at 04:02.

Need to kill this code: http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=/mozilla/toolkit/content/about.xhtml&rev=1.23&mark=90-93#85. However, it still begs the question of whether we want the "full" build ID in the UA string.

cc'ing some people who have had opinions before on how much of the build id to include in the UA string

(In reply to comment #2) > Need to kill this code: > http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=/mozilla/toolkit/content/about.xhtml&rev=1.23&mark=90-93#85. We added it intentionally, so I don't see why we'd want to kill it. This bug was about the actual UA we send over the wire, I thought - if it's not, then I say it's INVALID.

My hack in about.xhtml assumes that the build id in the UA string is a shortened ID without the hour. My understanding is that currently, after bsmedberg's cleanup, the UA string now has the full 10-digit build id. Our options are thus: * Change the UA string back and have it use a shortened build id, or * Remove the code in about.xhtml so that it shows just the UA, which includes the full, correct build id Currently, about.xhtml has a 12-digit franken-buildid, which is definitely not right.

Ah, I see. Sorry, my fault for skimming the bug too quickly. I still think there are two separate issues: 1) whether or not we want the over-the-wire UA to use the longer date, and whether that was an intentional change (what I thought this bug was), and 2) fixing about.xhtml to better deal with the longer build ID should we decide to keep it.

The UA should not suddenly start showing a longer build-id.

The change to the over-the-wire UA string were intentional, although I mean to file another bug to cover additional changes to the buildid which might include removing it from the UA string altogether.

Confirming with SeaMonkey: [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/2007070201 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre] (nightly) (W2Ksp4) [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/200707030505 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre] (nightly) (W2Ksp4)

Revert zach's change to about.xhtml (bug 345993) so that the build id in about: shows the correct 10-digit build id.

Checking in about.xhtml; /cvsroot/mozilla/toolkit/content/about.xhtml,v <-- about.xhtml new revision: 1.24; previous revision: 1.23 done

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007081402 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre] (nightly) (W2Ksp4) V.Fixed, with SeaMonkey.

I filed bug 392204 for the issue mentioned in comment 7.