Update user agent to Firefox ESR 128

[TobiGr]

What is it?

• Bugfix (user facing)
• Feature (user facing)
• Codebase improvement (dev facing)
• Meta improvement to the project (dev facing)

Description of the changes in your PR

Updates the user agent used by the downloader to retrieve files to a current version

Related PR

See TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1192

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[wb9688]

Why still Windows 10? And did you take this string from an actual instance of Firefox 128 on Windows 10 or just changed the number?

[opusforlife2]

Also, we completely skipped 2 ESR versions. Can there be a Github Action to update this automatically, or at least remind us?

[wb9688]

Also, we completely skipped 2 ESR versions. Can there be a Github Action to update this automatically, or at least remind us?

What about adding it to our release process documentation?

[TobiGr]

Why still Windows 10? And did you take this string from an actual instance of Firefox 128 on Windows 10 or just changed the number?

I have seen both user agents with and without the architecture info. We could also change to

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0

In that case I'd update TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1192 first to check whether this causes any problems.

Also, we completely skipped 2 ESR versions. Can there be a Github Action to update this automatically, or at least remind us?

What about adding it to our release process documentation?

I also thought about creating a workflow for that. But that should happen in the extractor because user agent changes should be checked there. I don't think that updating the UA should be part of the release process because a faulty UA could brake stuff.

[ale5000-git]

Wht not using the User-Agent of ESR build of Firefox for Linux?
They change more rarely and they are supported for long time so they can't be blocked.
Example: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux x86_64; rv:115.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

[TobiGr]

We are always using the ESR version. I should have specified this. The current ESR version is 128

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