Love the passive-aggressiveness and completely agree with it. Android and ChromeOS are Linux. They should report as such. Let’s see those stats change.
I personally see as benefiting us Linux users by forcing the rare website that “doesn’t work with your operating system” to work if they want to reach that sweet over-a-billion-user Android market. Win-win for pretty much everyone.
Is Firefox’s user share even big enough to have an impact on that?
still think this is a good move tho
Firefox 126 on Android has added “Linux” to the HTTP User-Agent String… Adding Linux finally to the Android User-Agent string has fixed some website compatibility issues plaguing Firefox for Android.
Are there still sites that rely on useragents, other than auto-selecting a package to download?
YouTube is obnoxious about it.
Google shows you a completely different search experience if you’re using Chrome over any other mobile browser.
Speed test.net will nag you to download the app and only do the download test.
User agent strings are an outdated discriminatory concept. Browsers should be specifying supported JavaScript, HTML, and CSS versions instead.
There is a JavaScript API to describe what features it supports
On the one hand, anything that acknowledges Android as being a Linux system is welcome.
On the other hand… ugh, user-agent strings.
I pray for the day web browsers get rid of “gecko Mozilla like”
Well, Android technically is another distro.
There are 3 classes of Linux distros:
- gnu/glibc based for general use
- alpine/musl based for containers
- Android for people afraid of GPL
