754752 - Google Books - Firefox on mobile receives desktop content on home page instead of mobile

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Attachment: Google Books Stock Browser

If a user visits books.google.com on fennec native, then they will be given a desktop site on the initial page. If a user goes to that site on the stock browser, they will be instead given a mobile site. Upon searching for a book however, both the stock browser and fennec native revert to using the desktop site.

Switching the user agent on fennec native and going to books.google.com results in nothing being rendered.

Comment 1

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Attachment: Google Books Fennec Native

Comment 2

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

Still an issue. Spoofing will make sure you're served the mobile site, however some of the black menu will suffer overlapping and misrendering top right in portrait mode - maybe due to a block of -webkit- styling that's only sent to webkit-based UAs. Still, that doesn't seem like a massive thing to fix, so I think we should get in touch and ask for the mobile site.

(Heh - right. It overlaps even worse in the stock Android browser :-p Definitely contactready then..)

Comment 3

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

* Firefox OS, Firefox Android, Opera Mobile Android
  Desktop site first, 
  then mobile when doing the actual search, 
  then back to desktop when clicking on a book

* Safari iOS, Android stock browser
  Mobile site first,
  then mobile search
  then Desktop site when selecting a book

The only issue being the first page, the rest behaves exactly the same everywhere


Contacted Alex.

Comment 4

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Still the same.

Comment 5

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Removing webkitcss flags, after inspection, we can notice that the mobile first page has basically all equivalent in moz or unprefixed world. So not really an issue. 

I will ping again.

Comment 6

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Attachment: chrome.png

Search results rendered on firefox with a chrome mobile android UA.

Comment 7

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Attachment: fxand.png

Search results rendered on firefox with a firefox mobile android UA.

Comment 8

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

The home page still exhibits the same issue for no reasons as we interpret exactly the same way. So it's just a matter of UA sniffing in this case.

Without changing anything to CSS, we would have a better experience than the current one.

Comment 9

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Opera Blink is receiving the Mobile home page.
To note that iOS is receiving the mobile site with a display issue.

And that Firefox iOS will receive the mobile site the same than iOS is receiving it.

I wonder if emulating as Firefox iOS would be a more general option for UA override in the future.

Comment 10

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

This has been fixed.