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Why does the Browsers report show both Firefox and Mozilla?

Products

Webtrends Analytics 9.x
Webtrends Analytics 8.x

Issue

Both Mozilla and Firefox appear in the Browsers report. As Mozilla Firefox is a product of the Mozilla Corporation, it is expected there will be one entry for the browser.

Cause

Mozilla Firefox, being an open source browser, is the basis for a number of other browsers. As a result, entries categorized under Firefox will be the Mozilla Firefox browser, while variants of the browser not recognized by Webtrends appear as Mozilla. It is also possible that developers of a non-Mozilla based browser use “Gecko” in the User-Agent string, which translates to Mozilla in reports.

Resolution

To review the Browsers recognized by Webtrends, edit the browsers.ini file found in the following location:

\Webtrends\storage\config\component\lookupdata

In browsers.ini, each browser is defined with two properties. The value for “log” lets Webtrends identify the browser by the string it detects in the cs(User-Agent) field of the log files. The value for “text” is what the application displays as the browser name in its reports.