directly?
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards(a)wikimedia.org
Juliusz, did this get posted to a wiki yet?
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Juliusz Gonera <jgonera(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Interesting. And sad. Thanks for tracking that
down.
On 04/24/2014 04:34 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
> From:
https://github.com/bestiejs/platform.js/issues/29
> "the new S4 stock browser is actually using a bastardized version of
> Chrome Mobile, but locked at version 18.0.1025.308".
>
> they quote the ua as: "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.2.2; en-au;
> SAMSUNG GT-I9500 Build/JDQ39) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko)
> Version/1.0 Chrome/18.0.1025.308 Mobie Safari/535.19"
>
> This UA might easily be mistaken for the vanilla version of Chrome..
> There might be more browsers like that. Thank you manufacterers.
>
> DJ
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Juliusz Gonera <jgonera(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Brion Vibber wrote:
>>
>>> Just a quick note: Android 2.3 and Windows Phone 7.5 (IE 9) devices
>>> have
>>> no software upgrade path; we can only wait for them to fall out of
>>> the
>>> market as devices get replaced. [Well technically Android 2.3 users
>>> could
>>> run Firefox, but getting people to switch browsers on mobile is hard!
>>>
>>
>> I know, but I'm not too worried about IE9. Its usage is already
>> pretty low.
>> When it comes to Android 2.3 a few months ago I had an idea of showing
>> banners to its users suggesting that they upgrade to Firefox. I'll
>> push more
>> for it so that we find some time to actually get it done. It should
>> not be
>> too difficult and I'd be curious to see if it improves Firefox
>> metrics.
>>
>>
>> I'm also a little worried to see old versions of Chrome in there;
>>> does
>>> this mean there's a lot of people who aren't turning on updates on
>>> their
>>> phone and are using an old version that shipped with the phone? Or
>>> is there
>>> something else holding back updates on some devices? With Chrome and
>>> Firefox
>>> on fast release cycles, it can be a pain to support old bugs...
>>>
>>
>> I'm also not sure where this comes from. I'd wait and see if it
>> changes in
>> the next few months. If it doesn't, we could investigate why Chrome
>> Mobile
>> 18 and not any other old version is that popular.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Juliusz
>>
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