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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 adlpz » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 1:44 PM UTC

brianfryer wrote: post #24

prateekdayal wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

lolno (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2). But it's funny.

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

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Post by ritcho » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 1:44 PM UTC

http://supportdetails.com/ still more useful, but nice work.

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, 1:47 PM UTC

prawn wrote: post #50

White label it for web developers.

I think I know what you mean but can you explain your idea? Just the domain or some added functionality? API?

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

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Post by tsieling » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 1:50 PM UTC

Nice. We did the same thing a few months ago and released it as open source: http://denimandsteel.com/work/browser-wink/

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

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Post by zackkitzmiller » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 1:50 PM UTC

Findmebyip.com http://fmbip.com/get-started/ is a lot more full featured, I think.

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

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Post by kibwen » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 1:51 PM UTC

That's an interesting Firefox logo you're displaying. Rather than featuring the generic "Planet Mozilla" globe, it appears to be using a map of Earth centered on Japan. The fox looks a bit sleeker as well.

For comparison, here's the official Firefox branding page: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/brand/identity/

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

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Post by rjsw » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 1:52 PM UTC

It correctly reports Firefox on NetBSD for me but also shows "OS Type: Linux".

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

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Post by victordg » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 1:56 PM UTC

Great! Java detection would be a really nice feature. Further detail in OS versions would be pretty useful as well.

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

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Post by andyjohnson0 » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 1:56 PM UTC

ck2 wrote: post #33

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

I think you are being a bit hard on them. This is aimed at tech support scenarios. Its not a privacy tool.

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

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Post by telecuda » Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 1:59 PM UTC

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…

Yes, this. Even simpler (think phone support) would be to setup http://mysite.com/browser which points to https://aboutmybrowser.com/?to=mysite.com/browserhook and forwards the info to a support agent.

The same idea works well for us with http://mysite.com/team pointing to a TeamViewer session.