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feedback, why are crash symbols showing a timestamp of 2010 so it appear OUTDATED?!

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The crash symbols are showing a timestamp of 2010 so it appears they are NOT being complied FRESHLY... this should be looked into...

for example... the crash symbols for Firefox 67.0.4 https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/candidates/67.0.4-candidates/build1/win64/en-US/firefox-67.0.4.crashreporter-symbols.zip

01/01/2010 @ midnight...


this is feedback and should be looked into...

The crash symbols are showing a timestamp of 2010 so it appears they are NOT being complied FRESHLY... this should be looked into... for example... the crash symbols for Firefox 67.0.4 https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/candidates/67.0.4-candidates/build1/win64/en-US/firefox-67.0.4.crashreporter-symbols.zip 01/01/2010 @ midnight... this is feedback and should be looked into...

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In the case of the user agent this is a decision to anonymize the user agent.

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Is this causing a problem?

I don't know which department would be able to respond to this feedback. Perhaps release management??

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Your Firefox user agent has the same 20100101 time stamp: Gecko/20100101

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jscher2000 said

Is this causing a problem? I don't know which department would be able to respond to this feedback. Perhaps release management??

causing a problem? not that I know of yet.... I have keeped my copy of crash reporter symbols up to date... but the time stamps are out of date..

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cor-el said

Your Firefox user agent has the same 20100101 time stamp: Gecko/20100101

I see what you mean... I looked up mine in About:config... I wonder why this is the case...

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In the case of the user agent this is a decision to anonymize the user agent.

There is more to come:

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I don't see the point of doing that... Firefox Devs need to know what version of Firefox a crash was used on plus for other reasons too probably...

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Melchior (aka Joseph) said

Firefox Devs need to know what version of Firefox a crash was used on plus for other reasons too probably...

If your Firefox crashed this year and you submitted a crash report, you can use the "View" button for a report on the about:crashes page to see what information the crash reporter is able to gather. It's definitely not limited to what is in your user agent string.

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The Telemetry environment shows all data that is included in the crash report in JSON format. This includes processor (CPU) and OS information and display (graphics card and monitor).