User agent string in tor-ify docs (general.useragent.override)
Was looking at tor-ify docs and the variable general.useragent.override
no longer exists in about:config
(https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO/Misc)
This reveals multiple problems:
- Those need to be fixed to provide people with correct/current values.
- But hard coding them means that the value of becomes stale.
- Hardcoding means they will require constant maintenance.
- A user (like me) won't know the correct value for that variable.
Are users expected to cut-n-paste multiple variables out of about:config
to construct the correct user-agent string? Or is there something else they should do?
Can Tor create a new variable that can be seen in about:config
? Maybe call it user-agent-torify
.
But really I think what's needed is a plugin that will generate the user-agent string. The plugin would fetch the most common string of the day. That string would be hosted at torproject.org
. Looking at amiunique.org shows me that I am not unique enough and way too uncommon using the latest Torbrowser.
I propose to call the plugin Agent Common.
Am I the first to propose this? What downside would there be?
Sincerely, FreD FlinstonE