Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by dkroy » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 1:26 PM UTC

sanat wrote: post #16

I use http://supportdetails.com/ . It's solved this problem for me since atleast the last 4 years.

I actually prefer the one you linked, over this new one. I like the layout, and sharing options better.

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

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Post by nemetroid » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 1:27 PM UTC

If I visit with an odd User Agent I get a server error.

https://aboutmybrowser.com/47523742 is an example where I used User Agent Switcher in Firefox with the UA string

    Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.5; FreeBSD) KHTML/4.5.4 (like Gecko)

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

#33

Post by ck2 » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 1:28 PM UTC

Woefully incomplete - you aren't even exploring navigator.plugins, installed fonts, DOM storage settings, etc.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/index.php?action=log&js=yes

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

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Post by _pferreir_ » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 1:28 PM UTC

Great idea. I lost the count to the number of times I had to ask this question. This will really help a lot.

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

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Post by prateekdayal » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 1:28 PM UTC

nemetroid wrote: post #32

If I visit with an odd User Agent I get a server error. https://aboutmybrowser.com/47523742 is an example where I used User Agent Switcher in Firefox with the UA string Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.5; FreeBSD) KHTML/4.5.4 (like Gecko)

Thanks for reporting this. Only when we started working on this we realized how complex user agent string parsing is. We will be improving it with all the feedback so you can expect things to be better in a day or so.

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

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Post by caio1982 » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 1:30 PM UTC

lynx -dump http://aboutmybrowser.com We're sorry, but something went wrong.

Really, guys? It's mothereffing lynx!

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

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Post by pavanky » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 1:31 PM UTC

It is identifying both chromium and firefox as chrome on Linux. The User Agent String looks suspicious too..

http://imgur.com/eYdlo,XjsOH

EDIT: I am on ArchLinux if that helps.

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

#38

Post by gingerjoos » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 1:33 PM UTC

prateekdayal wrote: post #29

pdw wrote: post #26

> We're sorry, but something went wrong. Iceweasel 15 (rebadged Firefox) on Linux.

Oops :( Can you please pass on the url string you got? (That has all your info)

same as above. UA string : Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.7) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.7 Iceweasel/10.0.7

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

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Post by gog » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 1:33 PM UTC

Android info also doesn't show up...

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

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Post by ottbot » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 1:34 PM UTC

prateekdayal wrote: post #27

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.

Here you go:

https://aboutmybrowser.com/890034160

Windows XP on Virtuabox