Ubuntu Web Browser identified as old Safari in gmail

Bug #1452616 reported by DonnieD
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This bug affects 23 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Canonical Pocket Desktop
Fix Committed
High
Unassigned
Canonical System Image
Fix Committed
High
Bill Filler
webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Olivier Tilloy

Bug Description

Ubuntu Web Browser identified as old Safari in gmail.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: webbrowser-app 0.23+15.04.20150416-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-16.16-generic 3.19.3
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu May 7 11:29:34 2015
SourcePackage: webbrowser-app
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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DonnieD (donnied) wrote :
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DonnieD (donnied) wrote :

That also applies to unity Gmail webapp which also opens webbrowser-app
Would be nice if gmai webapp and webbrowser nicely open gmail mobile version as the google chrome with the folowing link: https://mail.google.com/mail/mu/mp/912/?mui=ca#tl/priority/%5Eu

Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in webbrowser-app:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in webbrowser-app:
assignee: nobody → Alexandre Abreu (abreu-alexandre)
Changed in webapps-core:
assignee: nobody → Alexandre Abreu (abreu-alexandre)
Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Alexandre Abreu (abreu-alexandre)
Changed in webbrowser-app:
assignee: Alexandre Abreu (abreu-alexandre) → nobody
no longer affects: webbrowser-app
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Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) wrote :

Using webapp-container --user-agent-string with Firefox user-agent-string works:
$ webapp-container https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox --app-id=comgooglemail --maximized --user-agent-string='Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0'

David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in webapps-sprint:
milestone: none → sprint-14
assignee: nobody → David Barth (dbarth)
importance: Undecided → Critical
importance: Critical → High
importance: High → Medium
assignee: David Barth (dbarth) → Alexandre Abreu (abreu-alexandre)
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in webapps-sprint:
milestone: sprint-14 → sprint-15
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in webapps-sprint:
milestone: sprint-15 → sprint-16
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in webapps-sprint:
milestone: sprint-16 → sprint-18
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Franko Burolo (fburolo) wrote :

This is still happening on Wily. I have just installed the GCal web app. The moment I logged in, Google notified me about a login from Safari... O_o

Changed in canonical-pocket-desktop:
importance: Undecided → High
Bill Filler (bfiller)
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
milestone: none → ww04-2016
assignee: nobody → Bill Filler (bfiller)
importance: Undecided → High
Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
assignee: Alexandre Abreu (abreu-alexandre) → Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status: New → In Progress
no longer affects: webapps-sprint
no longer affects: webapps-core
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package webbrowser-app - 0.23+16.04.20160129.1-0ubuntu1

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webbrowser-app (0.23+16.04.20160129.1-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Add a UA override for desktop gmail to get rid of a misleading
    warning about using a deprecated version of safari. (LP: #1452616)
  * Do not connect to the loadingChanged signal, which has been
    deprecated for a good while. (LP: #1538190)
  * In narrow mode, when a mouse is connected, turn the bottom edge hint
    into a clickable bottom edge bar. (LP: #1534239)
  * Update focus highlight to match the upcoming UITK implementation.
    (LP: #1539176)
  * Update tab visuals to higher-contrast assets. (LP: #1534760)

 -- Olivier Tilloy <email address hidden> Fri, 29 Jan 2016 09:41:15 +0000

Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
tags: added: lt-blocker
Changed in canonical-pocket-desktop:
status: New → Fix Committed
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Terry Relph-Knight (r-terry-2) wrote :

Hmm - just playing with the new BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet. Opened the Ubuntu browser and got a Google log in page, logged in and sure enough a bit later got a warning from Google that someone had tried a Safari log in on my account. Yet another aspect of Ubuntu and this tablet that shows it ain't ready yet.

tags: removed: lt-blocker
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Bob Harvey (bobharvey) wrote :

yes, Terry, that was the basis of my bug #1574115 which No-one responded to so I have marked it as a duplicate of this one.

Annoying, isn't it.. I could have bought nearly two Samsung android tablets for what the M10 cost.. And I am beginning to wish I had.

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