Thanks for the discussion of this issue. I came here from Bug #1506836, learned something, and now I've just finished fixing the code on my own site to handle "mobi" and "like android" tokens correctly :-) I've also submitted a feature request to LastPass.
To broaden the discussion slightly, could anyone comment on the likelihood of any of the following things being implemented? They would all provide a (perhaps unfriendly) workaround in the situation where a particular website refuses to play ball but a user has a desperate need for it to work correctly: * Provide a button or something in the browser to explicitly switch UA string (like Sogou does to handle Chinese websites that require IE6 brokenness) * Support an "about:debug" page or similar that allows a custom UA string to be typed in * Allow the user to edit the override list on their phone (even just a text file editable in the terminal would do) * Support plugins in the browser that would allow third-party developers to fix the problem for you -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to webbrowser-app in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1328183 Title: User-Agent string results in poor UX on web Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: The User-Agent string for the browser is similar enough to the Android browser User-Agent, that it creates a poor experience when browsing the web on an Ubuntu phone. An inordinately large number of web sites persistently advertise to "install our app" instead of providing the best web experience; an app which cannot be installed. This is exacerbated by the pervasiveness of webapps on Ubuntu phone, which simply embed the mobile web site with webapp-container, and still result in seeing such advertisements, despite the fact that the "app" on Ubuntu is already installed, and the Android apps being advertised are simply not installable. Having all the big web sites telling users of Ubuntu that they should be using Android instead, is not very good for the user experience at all. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webbrowser-app/+bug/1328183/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
