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.
>>>
>>>
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