#17213 closed bug (no change required)
Update Webkit user-agent
| Reported by: | Coldfirex | Owned by: | pulkomandy |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Unscheduled |
| Component: | Kits/Web Kit | Version: | R1/beta3 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
We currently report webkit 605.1.15 (equivalent of Safari 11) on Beta3. Our actual version appears to be 612.1.21 (equivalent of Safari 14).
There are several websites that show banners that our browser is unsupported (github for example; they support the last 2 major versions of each browser).
Can we bump the user-agent string?
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 3 years ago
| Resolution: | → no change required |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:2 by , 3 years ago
Note also that safari doesn't report higher webkit versions either, so any heuristics checking that would not work anyway. https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/the-latest-user-agent/safari .
comment:3 by , 3 years ago
Yes, WebKit team got annoyed by people checking the WebKit version and now it's not updated anymore and frozen at some fixed version. And websites started to rely on the Safari version instead :'(
comment:4 by , 3 years ago
Interesting, thanks. Since it isnt in the nightly do we need to wait for Beta 4?
This has already been done for haikuwebkit 1.8.3-dev, it will be in the next release.
https://github.com/haiku/haikuwebkit/commit/7c9c1246d3c40a0e99bf573ad0f53738b478c91d