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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 »

This is our weekend hack. Would love your feedback.

The app is primarily for people doing customer support to understand if their users are using supported browsers and right plugins (like flash etc).

Info link - https://aboutmybrowser.com/?nr (no-redirect since we want it to be zero click for your users)

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

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Post by rplnt »

prateekdayal wrote: post #2

This is our weekend hack. Would love your feedback. The app is primarily for people doing customer support to understand if their users are using supported browsers and right plugins (like flash etc). Info link - https://aboutmybrowser.com/?nr (no-redirect since we want it to be zero click for your users)

If you access a direct link (to someone's browser info) the page should make it clear that it's not your browser you are visiting. Now it says "share your browser info" even if you opened some other url.

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

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Post by prateekdayal »

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)

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

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Post by bmj1 »

rplnt wrote: post #5
prateekdayal wrote: post #2

This is our weekend hack. Would love your feedback. The app is primarily for people doing customer support to understand if their users are using supported browsers and right plugins (like flash etc). Info link - https://aboutmybrowser.com/?nr (no-redirect since we want it to be zero click for your users)

If you access a direct link (to someone's browser info) the page should make it clear that it's not your browser you are visiting. Now it says "share your browser info" even if you opened some other url.

Nice idea - this could be achieved by dropping a cookie.

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

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Post by ashastry »

rplnt wrote: post #5
prateekdayal wrote: post #2

This is our weekend hack. Would love your feedback. The app is primarily for people doing customer support to understand if their users are using supported browsers and right plugins (like flash etc). Info link - https://aboutmybrowser.com/?nr (no-redirect since we want it to be zero click for your users)

If you access a direct link (to someone's browser info) the page should make it clear that it's not your browser you are visiting. Now it says "share your browser info" even if you opened some other url.

Thanks for the feedback. We will fix this..
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