805164 - accounts.google.com serves a desktop site to Firefox OS, not the mobile site

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

accounts.google.com currently serves a desktop site to FF OS, not the mobile site seen on FF Android and IPhone. Let's evangelize here to get google to give us mobile content.

Comment 1

[Mike Graboski]

Attachment: Mobile OS login

Comment 2

[Mike Graboski]

Hi Jason,

Can you confirm whether this has been resolved?  I just tested with the emulator, and it appears to be getting the mobile sign-in experience.

Comment 3

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

(In reply to Mike Graboski from comment #2)
> Hi Jason,
> 
> Can you confirm whether this has been resolved?  I just tested with the
> emulator, and it appears to be getting the mobile sign-in experience.

That's probably likely due to the fact that we added a UA override for it in bug 804481. That would allow us to get mobile content with an Android UA.

I can check on FF Android with a FF OS user agent though. That would confirm if it's fixed.

Comment 4

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

Thanks for checking on this Mike. I just confirmed that the desktop site is still served to the Firefox OS UA for accounts.google.com. As Jason said, the reason that the mobile site is served in the emulator is because we have added a hack to send the Firefox for Android UA to accounts.google.com until this issue is resolved.

Comment 5

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Attachment: Photo of ZTE device with the desktop UI for accounts.google.com

As of today, the ZTE device still receives the desktop UI for accounts.google.com. This is a very low hanging fruit that could be easily solved.

Comment 6

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

The User Agent String for Firefox OS follows this pattern:

> 'Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0'

The one for Firefox for Android this pattern

> 'Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0'

Both are documented in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Gecko_user_agent_string_reference

Comment 7

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

\o/ Fixed. after removing the UA override.