1018822 - [flatfish][1.4] improper user agent detected in apps and web

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Mike Jones]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 5712.61.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.116 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

installed application/open web page


Actual results:

application detect Firefox OS simulator, web pages detect Firefox for windows


Expected results:

Detected as Firefox OS proper or equivalent.

Comment 1

[Andrew Truong [:feer56] [:andrewtruong] [:atruong]]

Hi,

Please elaborate on the issue here in order for the bug to be processed accordingly.

Comment 2

[Mike Jones]

An example would be Line IM app. When opened the app reports the use of Firefox OS simulator and not of proper Firefox OS causing it to exit. I've had a few sites such as Adobe report the use of Firefox on a windows 32-bit machine.

Comment 3

[Mike Jones]

Seems that this is also the cause for Bug 1021432 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1021432. Left comment on that bug as well. I think these two bug reports should be combined as they seem related.

Comment 4

[Abhiram Chintangal [:maitreya]]

Hello,

I can confirm this bug with 2.1 as well. Google for instance, treats the tablet as a mobile device which makes the search results text really hard to read. (This can be fixed by reverting the page to "Classic" view). I have observed the same behavior with Vimeo as well.

Any thoughts on why this happening?

Comment 5

[Andrew Truong [:feer56] [:andrewtruong] [:atruong]]

Can we do a check on version 2.0+ to see if this is fixed or if a fixed still needs to be made/pushed out?

Comment 6

[Mike Jones]

Have the same issue with 2.1 prerelease update.

Comment 7

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

All issues related to user agent sniffing are handled by the Mozilla Compatibility Activity. 
See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Compatibility/Mobile

When you meet a Web site with a specific user agent sniffing issue which is not reproducible in let say an ipad or an Android tablet with Chrome, you may want to fill an issue. 
One bug per site please. You may want to use 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/form.mobile.compat

Be very specific about the User Agent you are using when reporting this bug.

Comment 8

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Is there any issue about moving that bug to Tech Evangelism and close it?
It will not achieve anything useful by its own. :) As we are aware of the issue.

Comment 9

[Andrew Truong [:feer56] [:andrewtruong] [:atruong]]

(In reply to Karl Dubost :karlcow from comment #8)
> Is there any issue about moving that bug to Tech Evangelism and close it?
> It will not achieve anything useful by its own. :) As we are aware of the
> issue.

I'm fine with moving it to TE.  Do we have another bug to reference it to for fixing eventually?

Comment 10

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Andrew, 
The thing is that there is nothing to fix on our side. 
Most of these bugs are Wrong logic in server side or client side user agent sniffing. So each site needs to be dealt separately, which we do in 

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Tech%20Evangelism&component=Mobile&resolution=---&list_id=10918092
 :)

Comment 11

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

To be clearer and to conclude:

Each time that there is an issue with the wrong version of the site being served to a Firefox OS Tablet. 
Open a bug for each individual Web site, describing the issue.
You may want to use the form
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/form.mobile.compat