I noticed site-specific user agent override prefs support putting a kind of an environment variable - %OS_SLICE% - in the override string, which is then replaced by the name of the current operating system.
I thought general.useragent.override pref should support this too, for consistency, if for no other reason, but it doesn't. Is there a good reason for this?
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Re: User agent override prefs and %OS_SLICE%
The general.useragent.override pref is a global override with a specific value. It isn't meant to be flexible and isn't governed by the same code as site-specific overrides.
If there is a specific reason to use the wallpaper override, which is always strongly discouraged in favour of using site-specific overrides, then there won't be any added value using a dynamic operating system slice, so there is no support for it and no reason to make that code more complex than it has to be.
If there is a specific reason to use the wallpaper override, which is always strongly discouraged in favour of using site-specific overrides, then there won't be any added value using a dynamic operating system slice, so there is no support for it and no reason to make that code more complex than it has to be.
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Re: User agent override prefs and %OS_SLICE%
OK, thank you for explaining.