Public bug reported:
Using chromium browser on ubuntu bionic (the apt version), the wrong
user agent is present in chromium 111 and 112. When testing the arm64
build, the user agent should contain the string aarch64 however it
contains the string x86_64. Many websites use the user agent to provide
download links for the correct architecture that the system is running
and this incorrect user agent will interfere with that process. I am not
aware if i386 and armhf builds are also affected by this or not. This
was not an issue in chromium 110 builds, they had the correct user
agent.
There is YouTube bug to go alongside this as well. In chromium 110+, YouTube is
blocking higher than 480p content on Linux unless the user agent is x86_64.
Here is the YouTube debug info from chromium 110 (using the default user agent
which correctly has aarch64).
```
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux aarch64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
```
```
{
"ns": "yt",
"el": "detailpage",
"cpn": "HFfQQ5-Ud1Xq31GM",
"ver": 2,
"cmt": "0",
"fmt": "247",
"fs": "0",
"rt": "3.724",
"euri": "",
"lact": 3,
"cl": "525275539",
"mos": 0,
"state": "49",
"volume": 100,
"cbrand": "hisense",
"cbr": "Chrome",
"cbrver": "110.0.0.0",
"c": "WEB",
"cver": "2.20230421.01.00",
"cplayer": "UNIPLAYER",
"cmodel": "65a67gevs",
"cos": "X11",
"cplatform": "TV",
"hl": "en_US",
"cr": "US",
"len": "41920.021",
"fexp":
"23776346,23983296,23986022,24004644,24007246,24080738,24135310,24169501,24219381,24255163,24406084,24415864,24416291,24433679,24437577,24439361,24449113,24462372,24468691,24499792,24516157,24532854,24539776,24550457,24556606,39323074",
"feature": "g-high-rec",
"afmt": "251",
"muted": "0",
"docid": "HA7emw-FIjs",
"ei": "welFZNqxGPik0_wPjtWe6A4",
"plid": "AAX6C8oUWaU74VL5",
"referrer": "https://www.youtube.com/";,
"sdetail": "p:/",
"sourceid": "y",
"of": "xjLV454MDgULLBhO4MUTig",
"vm":
"CAQQARgBOjJBTE03ZXZMUmtPVHNLMHhveDl3MHZNWDhrcW9jY0tuYVVCMnB5LUxwdzNfNW9pSUEtd2JTQVBta0tESV85bzU2Nlg2VmdHV2VRY09NOWxsZ284RUdLelRtTVdVZGxmZXJLanZOOGlWX1g0eGFiSUJOMUlGc0JjM1RwMzJGeHpGdElTdmhaVmNoAQ",
"vct": "0.000",
"vd": "41920.021",
"vpl": "",
"vbu": "0.000-7.000",
"vpa": "0",
"vsk": "0",
"ven": "0",
"vpr": "1",
"vrs": "1",
"vns": "2",
"vec": "null",
"vemsg": "",
"vvol": "1",
"vdom": "1",
"vsrc": "1",
"vw": "693",
"vh": "390",
"lct": "0.000",
"lsk": false,
"lmf": false,
"lbw": "152435.812",
"lhd": "1.635",
"lst": "0.000",
"laa":
"itag_251_type_3_src_getRequestInfoForRange_segsrc_getRequestInfoForRange_seg_0_range_78167-212166_time_0.0-8.2_off_0_len_134000",
"lva":
"itag_247_type_3_src_getRequestInfoForRange_segsrc_getRequestInfoForRange_seg_0_range_130036-287966_time_0.0-7.0_off_0_len_157931_end_1",
"lar":
"itag_251_type_3_src_getRequestInfoForRange_segsrc_getRequestInfoForRange_seg_1_range_241354-432255_time_10.0-19.9_off_0_len_190902",
"lvr":
"itag_247_type_3_src_getRequestInfoForRange_segsrc_getRequestInfoForRange_seg_2_range_412688-502401_time_14.0-18.3_off_0_len_89714",
"laq": "220089",
"lvq": "214435",
"lab": "0.000-8.461",
"lvb": "0.000-7.000",
"ismb": 13290000,
"leader": 1,
"relative_loudness": "-2.590",
"optimal_format": "720p",
"user_qual": 720,
"release_version": "youtube.player.web_20230418_00_RC00",
"debug_videoId": "HA7emw-FIjs",
"0sz": "false",
"op": "",
"yof": "false",
"dis": "",
"gpu":
"ANGLE_(NVIDIA_Corporation,_NVIDIA_Tegra_X1_(nvgpu)/integrated,_OpenGL_4.5.0)",
"debug_playbackQuality": "hd720",
"debug_date": "Sun Apr 23 2023 22:30:34 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)"
}
```
YouTube is reporting back that this is some random branded TV. Changing
the user agent to x86_64 is a hack that allows for higher resolutions to
be played back and the output from debug info is "normal" again.
I would like for this to be corrected at YouTube as well as in chromium-
browser debs.
** Affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Attachment added: "image.png"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2017463/+attachment/5667528/+files/image.png
** Description changed:
Using chromium browser on ubuntu bionic (the apt version), the wrong
user agent is present in chromium 111 and 112. When testing the arm64
build, the user agent should contain the string aarch64 however it
contains the string x86_64. Many websites use the user agent to provide
download links for the correct architecture that the system is running
- and this incrorrect user agent will interfere with that process. I am
- not aware if i386 and armhf builds are also affected by this or not.
- This was not an issue in chromium 110 builds, they had the correct user
+ and this incorrect user agent will interfere with that process. I am not
+ aware if i386 and armhf builds are also affected by this or not. This
+ was not an issue in chromium 110 builds, they had the correct user
agent.
There is YouTube bug to go alongside this as well. In chromium 110+, YouTube
is blocking higher than 480p content on Linux unless the user agent is x86_64.
Here is the YouTube debug info from chromium 110 (using the default user agent
which correctly has aarch64).
```
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux aarch64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
```
```
{
- "ns": "yt",
- "el": "detailpage",
- "cpn": "HFfQQ5-Ud1Xq31GM",
- "ver": 2,
- "cmt": "0",
- "fmt": "247",
- "fs": "0",
- "rt": "3.724",
- "euri": "",
- "lact": 3,
- "cl": "525275539",
- "mos": 0,
- "state": "49",
- "volume": 100,
- "cbrand": "hisense",
- "cbr": "Chrome",
- "cbrver": "110.0.0.0",
- "c": "WEB",
- "cver": "2.20230421.01.00",
- "cplayer": "UNIPLAYER",
- "cmodel": "65a67gevs",
- "cos": "X11",
- "cplatform": "TV",
- "hl": "en_US",
- "cr": "US",
- "len": "41920.021",
- "fexp":
"23776346,23983296,23986022,24004644,24007246,24080738,24135310,24169501,24219381,24255163,24406084,24415864,24416291,24433679,24437577,24439361,24449113,24462372,24468691,24499792,24516157,24532854,24539776,24550457,24556606,39323074",
- "feature": "g-high-rec",
- "afmt": "251",
- "muted": "0",
- "docid": "HA7emw-FIjs",
- "ei": "welFZNqxGPik0_wPjtWe6A4",
- "plid": "AAX6C8oUWaU74VL5",
- "referrer": "https://www.youtube.com/";,
- "sdetail": "p:/",
- "sourceid": "y",
- "of": "xjLV454MDgULLBhO4MUTig",
- "vm":
"CAQQARgBOjJBTE03ZXZMUmtPVHNLMHhveDl3MHZNWDhrcW9jY0tuYVVCMnB5LUxwdzNfNW9pSUEtd2JTQVBta0tESV85bzU2Nlg2VmdHV2VRY09NOWxsZ284RUdLelRtTVdVZGxmZXJLanZOOGlWX1g0eGFiSUJOMUlGc0JjM1RwMzJGeHpGdElTdmhaVmNoAQ",
- "vct": "0.000",
- "vd": "41920.021",
- "vpl": "",
- "vbu": "0.000-7.000",
- "vpa": "0",
- "vsk": "0",
- "ven": "0",
- "vpr": "1",
- "vrs": "1",
- "vns": "2",
- "vec": "null",
- "vemsg": "",
- "vvol": "1",
- "vdom": "1",
- "vsrc": "1",
- "vw": "693",
- "vh": "390",
- "lct": "0.000",
- "lsk": false,
- "lmf": false,
- "lbw": "152435.812",
- "lhd": "1.635",
- "lst": "0.000",
- "laa":
"itag_251_type_3_src_getRequestInfoForRange_segsrc_getRequestInfoForRange_seg_0_range_78167-212166_time_0.0-8.2_off_0_len_134000",
- "lva":
"itag_247_type_3_src_getRequestInfoForRange_segsrc_getRequestInfoForRange_seg_0_range_130036-287966_time_0.0-7.0_off_0_len_157931_end_1",
- "lar":
"itag_251_type_3_src_getRequestInfoForRange_segsrc_getRequestInfoForRange_seg_1_range_241354-432255_time_10.0-19.9_off_0_len_190902",
- "lvr":
"itag_247_type_3_src_getRequestInfoForRange_segsrc_getRequestInfoForRange_seg_2_range_412688-502401_time_14.0-18.3_off_0_len_89714",
- "laq": "220089",
- "lvq": "214435",
- "lab": "0.000-8.461",
- "lvb": "0.000-7.000",
- "ismb": 13290000,
- "leader": 1,
- "relative_loudness": "-2.590",
- "optimal_format": "720p",
- "user_qual": 720,
- "release_version": "youtube.player.web_20230418_00_RC00",
- "debug_videoId": "HA7emw-FIjs",
- "0sz": "false",
- "op": "",
- "yof": "false",
- "dis": "",
- "gpu":
"ANGLE_(NVIDIA_Corporation,_NVIDIA_Tegra_X1_(nvgpu)/integrated,_OpenGL_4.5.0)",
- "debug_playbackQuality": "hd720",
- "debug_date": "Sun Apr 23 2023 22:30:34 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)"
+ "ns": "yt",
+ "el": "detailpage",
+ "cpn": "HFfQQ5-Ud1Xq31GM",
+ "ver": 2,
+ "cmt": "0",
+ "fmt": "247",
+ "fs": "0",
+ "rt": "3.724",
+ "euri": "",
+ "lact": 3,
+ "cl": "525275539",
+ "mos": 0,
+ "state": "49",
+ "volume": 100,
+ "cbrand": "hisense",
+ "cbr": "Chrome",
+ "cbrver": "110.0.0.0",
+ "c": "WEB",
+ "cver": "2.20230421.01.00",
+ "cplayer": "UNIPLAYER",
+ "cmodel": "65a67gevs",
+ "cos": "X11",
+ "cplatform": "TV",
+ "hl": "en_US",
+ "cr": "US",
+ "len": "41920.021",
+ "fexp":
"23776346,23983296,23986022,24004644,24007246,24080738,24135310,24169501,24219381,24255163,24406084,24415864,24416291,24433679,24437577,24439361,24449113,24462372,24468691,24499792,24516157,24532854,24539776,24550457,24556606,39323074",
+ "feature": "g-high-rec",
+ "afmt": "251",
+ "muted": "0",
+ "docid": "HA7emw-FIjs",
+ "ei": "welFZNqxGPik0_wPjtWe6A4",
+ "plid": "AAX6C8oUWaU74VL5",
+ "referrer": "https://www.youtube.com/";,
+ "sdetail": "p:/",
+ "sourceid": "y",
+ "of": "xjLV454MDgULLBhO4MUTig",
+ "vm":
"CAQQARgBOjJBTE03ZXZMUmtPVHNLMHhveDl3MHZNWDhrcW9jY0tuYVVCMnB5LUxwdzNfNW9pSUEtd2JTQVBta0tESV85bzU2Nlg2VmdHV2VRY09NOWxsZ284RUdLelRtTVdVZGxmZXJLanZOOGlWX1g0eGFiSUJOMUlGc0JjM1RwMzJGeHpGdElTdmhaVmNoAQ",
+ "vct": "0.000",
+ "vd": "41920.021",
+ "vpl": "",
+ "vbu": "0.000-7.000",
+ "vpa": "0",
+ "vsk": "0",
+ "ven": "0",
+ "vpr": "1",
+ "vrs": "1",
+ "vns": "2",
+ "vec": "null",
+ "vemsg": "",
+ "vvol": "1",
+ "vdom": "1",
+ "vsrc": "1",
+ "vw": "693",
+ "vh": "390",
+ "lct": "0.000",
+ "lsk": false,
+ "lmf": false,
+ "lbw": "152435.812",
+ "lhd": "1.635",
+ "lst": "0.000",
+ "laa":
"itag_251_type_3_src_getRequestInfoForRange_segsrc_getRequestInfoForRange_seg_0_range_78167-212166_time_0.0-8.2_off_0_len_134000",
+ "lva":
"itag_247_type_3_src_getRequestInfoForRange_segsrc_getRequestInfoForRange_seg_0_range_130036-287966_time_0.0-7.0_off_0_len_157931_end_1",
+ "lar":
"itag_251_type_3_src_getRequestInfoForRange_segsrc_getRequestInfoForRange_seg_1_range_241354-432255_time_10.0-19.9_off_0_len_190902",
+ "lvr":
"itag_247_type_3_src_getRequestInfoForRange_segsrc_getRequestInfoForRange_seg_2_range_412688-502401_time_14.0-18.3_off_0_len_89714",
+ "laq": "220089",
+ "lvq": "214435",
+ "lab": "0.000-8.461",
+ "lvb": "0.000-7.000",
+ "ismb": 13290000,
+ "leader": 1,
+ "relative_loudness": "-2.590",
+ "optimal_format": "720p",
+ "user_qual": 720,
+ "release_version": "youtube.player.web_20230418_00_RC00",
+ "debug_videoId": "HA7emw-FIjs",
+ "0sz": "false",
+ "op": "",
+ "yof": "false",
+ "dis": "",
+ "gpu":
"ANGLE_(NVIDIA_Corporation,_NVIDIA_Tegra_X1_(nvgpu)/integrated,_OpenGL_4.5.0)",
+ "debug_playbackQuality": "hd720",
+ "debug_date": "Sun Apr 23 2023 22:30:34 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)"
}
```
YouTube is reporting back that this is some random branded TV. Changing
the user agent to x86_64 is a hack that allows for higher resolutions to
be played back and the output from debug info is "normal" again.
I would like for this to be corrected at YouTube as well as in chromium-
browser debs.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2017463
Title:
chromium 111 and 112 have the wrong architecture in the user agent
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Using chromium browser on ubuntu bionic (the apt version), the wrong
user agent is present in chromium 111 and 112. When testing the arm64
build, the user agent should contain the string aarch64 however it
contains the string x86_64. Many websites use the user agent to
provide download links for the correct architecture that the system is
running and this incorrect user agent will interfere with that
process. I am not aware if i386 and armhf builds are also affected by
this or not. This was not an issue in chromium 110 builds, they had
the correct user agent.
There is YouTube bug to go alongside this as well. In chromium 110+, YouTube
is blocking higher than 480p content on Linux unless the user agent is x86_64.
Here is the YouTube debug info from chromium 110 (using the default user agent
which correctly has aarch64).
```
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux aarch64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
```
```
{
"ns": "yt",
"el": "detailpage",
"cpn": "HFfQQ5-Ud1Xq31GM",
"ver": 2,
"cmt": "0",
"fmt": "247",
"fs": "0",
"rt": "3.724",
"euri": "",
"lact": 3,
"cl": "525275539",
"mos": 0,
"state": "49",
"volume": 100,
"cbrand": "hisense",
"cbr": "Chrome",
"cbrver": "110.0.0.0",
"c": "WEB",
"cver": "2.20230421.01.00",
"cplayer": "UNIPLAYER",
"cmodel": "65a67gevs",
"cos": "X11",
"cplatform": "TV",
"hl": "en_US",
"cr": "US",
"len": "41920.021",
"fexp":
"23776346,23983296,23986022,24004644,24007246,24080738,24135310,24169501,24219381,24255163,24406084,24415864,24416291,24433679,24437577,24439361,24449113,24462372,24468691,24499792,24516157,24532854,24539776,24550457,24556606,39323074",
"feature": "g-high-rec",
"afmt": "251",
"muted": "0",
"docid": "HA7emw-FIjs",
"ei": "welFZNqxGPik0_wPjtWe6A4",
"plid": "AAX6C8oUWaU74VL5",
"referrer": "https://www.youtube.com/";,
"sdetail": "p:/",
"sourceid": "y",
"of": "xjLV454MDgULLBhO4MUTig",
"vm":
"CAQQARgBOjJBTE03ZXZMUmtPVHNLMHhveDl3MHZNWDhrcW9jY0tuYVVCMnB5LUxwdzNfNW9pSUEtd2JTQVBta0tESV85bzU2Nlg2VmdHV2VRY09NOWxsZ284RUdLelRtTVdVZGxmZXJLanZOOGlWX1g0eGFiSUJOMUlGc0JjM1RwMzJGeHpGdElTdmhaVmNoAQ",
"vct": "0.000",
"vd": "41920.021",
"vpl": "",
"vbu": "0.000-7.000",
"vpa": "0",
"vsk": "0",
"ven": "0",
"vpr": "1",
"vrs": "1",
"vns": "2",
"vec": "null",
"vemsg": "",
"vvol": "1",
"vdom": "1",
"vsrc": "1",
"vw": "693",
"vh": "390",
"lct": "0.000",
"lsk": false,
"lmf": false,
"lbw": "152435.812",
"lhd": "1.635",
"lst": "0.000",
"laa":
"itag_251_type_3_src_getRequestInfoForRange_segsrc_getRequestInfoForRange_seg_0_range_78167-212166_time_0.0-8.2_off_0_len_134000",
"lva":
"itag_247_type_3_src_getRequestInfoForRange_segsrc_getRequestInfoForRange_seg_0_range_130036-287966_time_0.0-7.0_off_0_len_157931_end_1",
"lar":
"itag_251_type_3_src_getRequestInfoForRange_segsrc_getRequestInfoForRange_seg_1_range_241354-432255_time_10.0-19.9_off_0_len_190902",
"lvr":
"itag_247_type_3_src_getRequestInfoForRange_segsrc_getRequestInfoForRange_seg_2_range_412688-502401_time_14.0-18.3_off_0_len_89714",
"laq": "220089",
"lvq": "214435",
"lab": "0.000-8.461",
"lvb": "0.000-7.000",
"ismb": 13290000,
"leader": 1,
"relative_loudness": "-2.590",
"optimal_format": "720p",
"user_qual": 720,
"release_version": "youtube.player.web_20230418_00_RC00",
"debug_videoId": "HA7emw-FIjs",
"0sz": "false",
"op": "",
"yof": "false",
"dis": "",
"gpu":
"ANGLE_(NVIDIA_Corporation,_NVIDIA_Tegra_X1_(nvgpu)/integrated,_OpenGL_4.5.0)",
"debug_playbackQuality": "hd720",
"debug_date": "Sun Apr 23 2023 22:30:34 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)"
}
```
YouTube is reporting back that this is some random branded TV.
Changing the user agent to x86_64 is a hack that allows for higher
resolutions to be played back and the output from debug info is
"normal" again.
I would like for this to be corrected at YouTube as well as in
chromium-browser debs.
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