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Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by prateekdayal »

jasonkester wrote: post #19

Cool. How about adding a way to automatically fire off a web hook after sniffing the information. As in: "Thanks for reporting the issue. Would you mind following this link so that we can get some information about your web browser? https://aboutmybrowser.com/?to=mysite.com/browserhook Or better, let me sign up for an account and register a named webhook with you, as in, https://aboutmybrowser.com/mysite , that would…

Yep! That's the next step. We wanted to get the MVP out and get feedback from the community. Please follow us on Twitter to stay updated (again, no bullshit and just product announcements) - https://twitter.com/aboutmybrowser

Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by w0utert »

anonymoushn wrote: post #20

It looks like it detects the resolution of the primary display. I'm not sure if there's a way to pick the "right" display, though. Screen Width 1440 Screen Height 900 Browser Width 2560 Browser Height 1368

I'm not really sure if it's a glitch in the tool or that the resolution is (deliberately?) misreported by my browser, but on my iPad 3 it reports 1024x768.

A nice extension to this would be to add some kind of database of popular mobile devices, so you can detect the device type from the reported attributes. I think you coud extract some interesting device usage statistics out of it.

Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by brianfryer »

prateekdayal wrote: post #6
emilsedgh wrote: post #4

Seems nice. A couple of things: 1) It would be cool if it gets shorter urls so it would be usable on phone. 2) It detects Safari on Linux for me. Im using Konqueror. https://aboutmybrowser.com/848858317

Thanks for pointing out the bug. We'll work on it. 'Safari on linux' does sound weird, doesn't it? :) We'll work on the urls. As such the layout scales down on phones (thanks to Bootstrap 2.0)

Great tool! I can definitely see myself using this :-)

I viewed the site with Chrome for iOS (on an iPad 2), and it detected "Safari on OS/2". Is that correct?

Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by ottbot »

It's unfortunate that when using IE, both this and supportdetails.com only give versions as specific as "Windows XP" and "IE 8", whereas I get more detailed version info using Chrome on OS X.

I'm trying to track down an IE issue and would love for our support team to get customers to use something like this. But we need more info to make it easier to reproduce the problem.

Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by prateekdayal »

ottbot wrote: post #25

It's unfortunate that when using IE, both this and supportdetails.com only give versions as specific as "Windows XP" and "IE 8", whereas I get more detailed version info using Chrome on OS X. I'm trying to track down an IE issue and would love for our support team to get customers to use something like this. But we need more info to make it easier to reproduce the problem.

Can you please give us the permalink you get? Here or at prateek@supportbee.com so we can debug this? We want to make this super useful. This is just a MVP.
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