Agree. This Chromium snap package is installed, even when users install chromium-browser from the Ubuntu repositories. Please allow users to stick to the default open source Ubuntu repositories; don't steer them away to the proprietary Chrome browser.
Severe usability problems with popular websites caused by a custom user agent will result in the opposite. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1868117 Title: [snap] Adapt chromium user agent to avoid "not supported browser" Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Currently some websites like netflix.com and web.whatsapp.com does not recognize chromium Ubuntu as chrome because of the different user agent. We need to find a way like vivaldi to avoid such problems for casual users. Current snap chromium UA : Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) snap Chromium/80.0.3987.132 Chrome/80.0.3987.132 Safari/537.36 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1868117/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
