760559 - Google Flight Search: Offered Desktop over Mobile content

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

["Saptarshi Guha[:joy]"]

Hello

Upon visiting www.google.com/flights in Fennec (14.0a2, 2012-05-31) in ICS on a Google Galaxy Nexus (latest google dev phone), I get the desktop site.

My 'Request Desktop Version' button is unchecked.

When I visit the same site in chrome, i get the mobile friendly site (big improvement).

No idea why this happens.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Thanks for the bug. Google is sniffing the user-agent and not accurately detecting that it's a mobile browser and is thus redirecting to their desktop site.

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

An HTTP GET Request with the UA in Nightly: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:15.0) Gecko/15.0 Firefox/15.0a1 -- is served the desktop version of http://www.google.com/flights

An HTTP GET Request with the UA in Android AOSP Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.0.4; en-us; Galaxy Nexus Build/IMM76I) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30 -- is served the mobile touch-friendly version of http://www.google.com/flights

Spoofing the UA in Nightly to the Android AOSP Browser will result in the mobile touch-friendly version (as of June 2012) of the site with some caveats of broken layout due to WebKit prefixed styling.

Comment 3

["Saptarshi Guha[:joy]"]

This means without Fennec changing it's UA string, we get served the desktop version. I guess this a Google problem then, they should change it the page served.

Thanks

Comment 4

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

This is a site under the google.com domain. It is therefore not called out specifically on Alexa and I don't have it on other lists as a top site. k9o- unless this site is determined to be a priority.

Comment 5

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Contacted Alex. Google.

Comment 6

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Still receiving the desktop site. Not fixed.

Comment 7

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Tested today 

* on Firefox Android 26, after clearing cache and cookies.
  Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:26.0) Gecko/26.0 Firefox/26.0
  receiving the desktop content

* on Firefos OS, 
  Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:26.0) Gecko/26.0 Firefox/26.0
  same result

On both cases, the (desktop) top search toolbar of Google site displays, then a delay of 3s before the rest of the page displays (with desktop content)

Comment 8

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

Seems I now get a pretty nice, touch-adapted site on both Firefox OS and Firefox for Android. In both cases, however, the "book" button doesn't work - the screen goes slightly dimmer like the site tries to open a "lightbox" but positions it off-screen. Nothing else happens.

I intend to close this and reported bug 992851 on the "book" button problem.