Juliusz, did this get posted to a wiki yet?
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Juliusz Gonera <[email protected]>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 <[email protected]> >> 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mobile-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687
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