1131601 - Google Play Store marked as incompatible with Firefox for Android

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Mobile, defect)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9026815

Confirmed: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:38.0) Gecko/38.0 Firefox/38.0

Comment 1

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Yep, they send us a 403 based on User Agent header. 

Karl, can you ask them to fix this or help us understand their thinking here?

http --print=hH GET https://play.google.com/store User-Agent:"$FFA"
GET /store HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress
Host: play.google.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:36.0) Gecko/36.0 Firefox/36.0

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:48:25 GMT
Expires: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:48:25 GMT
P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151657 for more info."
Server: GSE
Set-Cookie: NID=67=HqzZTMezNw55t3j2qNEnpn_Kqt4qYSVUptv8sqoM-GzLzvW9xxsv2yQjJL0fVO1tlJx_g9_AgXa4qseawR9kdNrnCle5uMDjiVooBVHG-RYsAhkjDA_10ARSg8IsY1Cy;Domain=.google.com;Path=/;Expires=Wed, 12-Aug-2015 14:48:25 GMT;HttpOnly
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block

http --print=hH GET https://play.google.com/store User-Agent:"$CHR"
GET /store HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress
Host: play.google.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2282.0 Safari/537.36

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:48:35 GMT
Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT
P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151657 for more info."
Pragma: no-cache
Server: GSE
Set-Cookie: PLAY_PREFS=CgJVUxCxsdqftykosbHan7cp:S:ANO1ljJiG8fRLSvF; Path=/; Secure; HttpOnly
Set-Cookie: NID=67=HEU_osXMcO7TSiLQ1GYtKkFLYwi6XT_48BLuA74nghNTp3mskZTmNpErrjRAuCui30TTWsF8G5DRu2S4O7vTyZbpHgF0DNBh5so7_VyhDfTJxP2_lGxrilfMbYmWgxY4;Domain=.google.com;Path=/;Expires=Wed, 12-Aug-2015 14:48:35 GMT;HttpOnly
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block

Comment 2

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

ye olde Presto Opera Mobile is similarly blocked.

Comment 3

[Šime Vidas]

Opera Mini on Android (which should still be Presto-based) is not blocked.

Comment 4

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

> "Google Play blocked on Firefox by mistake, Google says bug will be fixed ‘soon’"

From http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/10/google-play-no-longer-supports-firefox-for-android-did-the-browser-war-just-get-ugly/.

Comment 5

[Dan Callahan [:callahad]]

From the two tweets below (and personal testing), it looks like this was resolved ~14 hours ago.

[0]: https://twitter.com/ficus/status/565234296294625280

[1]: https://twitter.com/ficus/status/565367472908685312

Comment 6

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Thanks for checking Dan. Let's close.