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While scrolling around I saw something that said Firefox thinks I'm operating under 'Windows 10. NOT TRUE'. I've had Windows 11 for a while now. Does it make any difference? Russ Marshall

While scrolling around I saw something that said Firefox thinks I'm operating under ''''''Windows 10. NOT TRUE''''''. I've had '''Windows 11''' for a while now. Does it make any difference? Russ Marshall

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Paul
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Hi

Not really, no. To protect your privacy and make you look less unique to websites trying to track people, Firefox obscures the version of Windows that you are actually using and makes it look like you are using a more common version (in this case Windows 10).

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James
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Actually the more simple answer is Windows 11 is basically based on NT 10.0 (same as Windows 10) as to why it says NT 10.0 in the Firefox useragent on Windows 11.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_11

Modified by James

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cor-el
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See:

  • 1841425 - Hard code UA string's Windows version as 10.0

(please do not comment in bug reports
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html)

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