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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 cnlwsu »

Love it, I forwarded it to our QA and support team. One problem seems to be since the url bar is automatically updated (redirect?) with the current results people ended up bookmarking it instead of the just "aboutmybrowser.com" so they saw FF come up as a result in IE and such when opening in other browser.

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

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Post by swalberg »

sylvinus wrote: post #130
dsr_ wrote: post #82

Let me make a suggestion: for reporting, return a URL with a set of word codes rather than numbers and letters. https://aboutmybrowser.com/dog_walrus_banana_door If you figure out a set of 1000 short words that are not too close to each other and easy to pronounce, four of them gives you a trillion possible combinations. If you window it so that the first word is always the same on a given day and keep a record of th…

Beware that "walrus" may not be that easy to pronounce by a foreigner :)

Using the 26 letters from the NATO alphabet might be easier, it's made to be intelligible for non-English speakers over a radio connection with static.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet

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

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Post by mustardhamsters »

swalberg wrote: post #133
sylvinus wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Beware that "walrus" may not be that easy to pronounce by a foreigner :)

Using the 26 letters from the NATO alphabet might be easier, it's made to be intelligible for non-English speakers over a radio connection with static. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet

Good starting point, but that won't get him trillions of combinations.

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

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Post by mustardhamsters »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #107
ashastry wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. That one looks good and showed up in our research as well. In aboutmybrowser, we generate a custom url for you so you can copy the url and share your info easily. No need to copy all the text or enter your email to share the info. Just better to protect your privacy and anonymity. More of the similar products out there focus on users who want to find out their info (basically savvy users). This is for support ag…

> No need to copy all the text or enter your email to share the info. // So a support provider has to send the user to your site. The user then has to copy the URL, paste it in to a message, lookup the person making the request for the details and forward them. The requester has to then go to your site and enter the URL in order to retrieve the details. Compared with the support supplier sending an email with a link…

Most of my tech support requests come in via email anyway. I send them to supportdetails.com, and they're very happy to send me an email. We have a tech-savvy userbase, so usually they say they liked it so much they'll use it themselves.

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

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Post by jerf »

mustardhamsters wrote: post #134
swalberg wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using the 26 letters from the NATO alphabet might be easier, it's made to be intelligible for non-English speakers over a radio connection with static. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet

Good starting point, but that won't get him trillions of combinations.

It does with 9 letters. In this case though I think I'd use them like a counter, so I would probably still top out at around 4 or 5.

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

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Post by Steko »

There's a feature in a few iOS browsers (Atomic, Sleipnir at least) to report as something else to avoid broken mobile sites or whatever.

There are a number of firefox add ons that do the same, this one has site specific settings which is exactly what I needed and it works great:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/uacontrol/

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