Midori's user agent should be Safari

Bug #734164 reported by Avi Romanoff
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
elementary OS
Fix Released
Medium
Avi Romanoff

Bug Description

Right now, because the folks over in Silicon Valley are lame and lazy, a number of websites either do not function properly under Midori, or incorrectly redirect to the mobile versions of those pages. An example of the former is Google Docs, and the latter Facebook. This isn't Midori's fault; it can handle the pages just fine. The sites themselves don't know about Midori, and wrongly assume it's some mobile/old browser. Midori has the ability out-of-the-box to switch it's user agent. Since Midori is based on WebKit, the most similar user agent would then be Safari. This change should be totally transparent to users, and would only serve to resolve issues, not create them. Perhaps this should be "fixed" upstream?

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Gusions (gusions) wrote :

HI, this is a bug of a lot of application. Facebook and G.docs are one of this. Is not a bug of Midori.

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Avi Romanoff (aroman) wrote :

Yes, it isn't Midori's fault. That said, it is unacceptable that many of the important sites on the net cannot be browsed out of the box with elementaryOS. It stinks, but it's what we have to do.

Avi Romanoff (aroman)
Changed in elementaryos:
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Avi Romanoff (aroman)
milestone: none → 0.1-rc
Avi Romanoff (aroman)
Changed in elementaryos:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames) wrote :

Perhaps we could have a list of "incompatible" sites and only user-agent spoof on them? I believe Chrome did this on Hotmail for a while before they gained popularity.

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Avi Romanoff (aroman) wrote :

Interesting, but what would be the advantage? Seems like a bunch of extra work for no real gain I'm afraid.

Avi Romanoff (aroman)
Changed in elementaryos:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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