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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