Where should I post this? Should I just edit
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Browser_support#Mobile_browsers directly?


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Arthur Richards <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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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