Ubuntu
webbrowser-app package

User agent string claims it's running Ubuntu 14.04

Bug #1466427 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Canonical System Image
Fix Released
High
Bill Filler
Canonical System Image 11 "OTA11"
webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Olivier Tilloy
Xenial
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Ubuntu 15.04 r35

1. Go to a page that reports your user agent string, for example <http://whatsmyuseragent.com/> or <http://www.useragentstring.com/>.

What you see: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Ubuntu 14.04 like Android 4.4) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chromium/35.0.1870.2 Mobile Safari/537.36

What you should see: The UA string should not say "Ubuntu 14.04".

Related branches

lp://staging/~osomon/webbrowser-app/lsb-release
system-apps-ci-bot: Needs Fixing (continuous-integration)
Ubuntu Phablet Team: Pending requested
Diff: 87 lines (+14/-5)
4 files modified
debian/control (+1/-0)
src/Ubuntu/CMakeLists.txt (+4/-0)
src/Ubuntu/Web/UserAgent02.qml (+2/-5)
src/Ubuntu/Web/plugin.cpp (+7/-0)
lp://staging/~osomon/webbrowser-app/xenial-sru-1
Ubuntu Phablet Team: Pending requested
Diff: 905 lines (+274/-86)
27 files modified
debian/changelog (+15/-0)
debian/control (+2/-1)
src/Ubuntu/CMakeLists.txt (+4/-0)
src/Ubuntu/Web/UserAgent02.qml (+4/-10)
src/Ubuntu/Web/plugin.cpp (+7/-0)
src/Ubuntu/Web/ua-overrides-desktop.js (+5/-0)
src/Ubuntu/Web/ua-overrides-mobile.js (+6/-1)
src/app/browserapplication.cpp (+32/-24)
src/app/browserapplication.h (+1/-2)
src/app/config.h.in (+0/-1)
src/app/single-instance-manager.cpp (+39/-3)
src/app/single-instance-manager.h (+1/-1)
src/app/webbrowser/Browser.qml (+21/-15)
src/app/webbrowser/BrowserTab.qml (+3/-2)
src/app/webbrowser/NavigationBar.qml (+1/-2)
src/app/webbrowser/webbrowser-app.cpp (+1/-1)
src/app/webcontainer/WebApp.qml (+1/-0)
src/app/webcontainer/WebViewImplOxide.qml (+28/-14)
src/app/webcontainer/WebappContainerWebview.qml (+3/-1)
src/app/webcontainer/webapp-container.cpp (+32/-1)
src/app/webcontainer/webapp-container.h (+1/-0)
src/app/webcontainer/webapp-container.qml (+2/-0)
tests/autopilot/webapp_container/tests/__init__.py (+4/-0)
tests/autopilot/webapp_container/tests/fake_servers.py (+29/-0)
tests/autopilot/webapp_container/tests/test_popup_webview_overlay.py (+19/-0)
tests/autopilot/webapp_container/tests/test_saml_url_patterns.py (+9/-3)
tests/unittests/single-instance-manager/tst_SingleInstanceManagerTests.cpp (+4/-4)
Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Revision history for this message
Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki) wrote :

Also, Chromium 35 is from 2014 so sites block the browser because of that. It should reflect the version Oxide is based on.

Revision history for this message
Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Related: bug #1565063.

tags: added: ua-string
Bill Filler (bfiller)
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
assignee: nobody → Bill Filler (bfiller)
milestone: none → 11
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: system-apps-11
Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package webbrowser-app - 0.23+16.04.20160509.3-0ubuntu1

---------------
webbrowser-app (0.23+16.04.20160509.3-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ CI Train Bot ]
  * Resync trunk.

  [ Olivier Tilloy ]
  * Fine-tune the custom memory-pressure handler, from data gathered on
    several devices. (LP: #1576639)
  * Update translation template.

 -- Olivier Tilloy <email address hidden> Mon, 09 May 2016 17:56:03 +0000

Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Matthew, or anyone else affected,

Accepted webbrowser-app into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webbrowser-app/0.23+16.04.20161028-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: New → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
Revision history for this message
Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Tested and verified in an up-to-date xenial amd64 VM, with webbrowser-app 0.23+16.04.20161028-0ubuntu1.

I browsed to whatsmyua.com and the user agent string advertises Ubuntu 16.04.

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Hello Matthew, or anyone else affected,

Accepted webbrowser-app into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webbrowser-app/0.23+16.04.20161028-0ubuntu2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

tags: removed: verification-done
tags: added: verification-needed
Revision history for this message
Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Tested and verified in an up-to-date xenial amd64 VM, with webbrowser-app 0.23+16.04.20161028-0ubuntu2.

I browsed to whatsmyua.com and the user agent string advertises Ubuntu 16.04.

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package webbrowser-app - 0.23+16.04.20161028-0ubuntu2

---------------
webbrowser-app (0.23+16.04.20161028-0ubuntu2) xenial; urgency=medium

  * SRU for selected bug fixes:
    - LP: #1565055: support for google hangouts
    - LP: #1573017: SAML detection logic broken in webapp container
    - LP: #1572673: invalid variable access error in webapp container
    - LP: #1466427: dynamic Ubuntu version in default UA string
    - LP: #1576639: fine-tune the custom memory-pressure handler
    - LP: #1581025: secure connection icon not showing
    - LP: #1580290: only load the current tab when the session is restored
    - LP: #1577806: browser and container open under the same instance
    - LP: #1565063: dynamic Chromium version in default UA string

 -- Olivier Tilloy <email address hidden> Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:17:33 +0000

Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for webbrowser-app has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

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