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by esskay 1175 days ago
Stick out to who? Just set the useragent to a default firefox one (assuming its not already set) and you're golden.
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I decided to test it out on a website[0] and it does seem that the useragent goes by the Firefox name:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0

On my Firefox:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/110.0

It's interesting to note that the Mullvad browser seems to be based off on Firefox 102.0, which came way back on June 28, 2022:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/102.0/releasenotes/

[0]: https://gs.statcounter.com/detect

Firefox 102 is current Extended Support Release (ESR):

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/102.9.0/releasenotes/

You can see in the "About" window that it's based on Firefox 102.9, which is the latest ESR version. It masks the minor version in the UA string.
That's because it's a fork of the Tor browser, meaning it's based on Firefox ESR, which is currently on version 102.
Extended releases are counted a bit differently, it will jump from 102 to 115.