How can I anonymize my browser useragent, yet still be counted as a FF/Ubuntu user?

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Published on 2010-02-02T13:31:50Z Indexed on 2011/02/19 15:27 UTC
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I read about EFF's Panopticlick project to see how unique your webbrowser's headers are. I would like to anonymize that a bit.

My current User Agent is

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100106 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.7

I would like to make that more anonymous, however I still wanted to be counted as a Firefox and Ubuntu user.

How can I change my User Agent in Firefox?
What should I change it to so that it's less unique, but will be counted as a Firefox user and a Ubuntu user on web analytics software?

I know that there is no guarantee that I will be counted a Firefox/Ubuntu user, just something that 'works most of the time' would be sufficent.

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