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by gourlaysama 2487 days ago
> With the deprecation of Adobe Flash Player, there is no longer a need to identify users on 32-bit version of the Firefox browser on 64-bit version operating systems[, ]reducing user agent fingerprinting factors.

Good. User agents already contain too much.

That's actually the first time I've ever seen a browser actively removing stuff from the User Agent.

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I believe Safari stopped increasing the browser version in the user agent some time ago.
So what does it do now? Is it just an older version number or did they remove the number altogether.