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.
It sounds like the idea was actually the other way around: forcing the rare website that doesn’t work with Firefox for Android (which only has a small share of the billion-plus-user Android market) to work.
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.
On the one hand, anything that acknowledges Android as being a Linux system is welcome.
On the other hand… ugh, user-agent strings.
User agent strings are an outdated discriminatory concept.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
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