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Firefox 126 Available - Adds "Linux" To The Android User Agent String (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 6 months ago by joojmachine@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 75 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Love the passive-aggressiveness and completely agree with it. Android and ChromeOS are Linux. They should report as such. Let's see those stats change.

[–] joojmachine@lemmy.ml 45 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I personally see as benefiting us Linux users by forcing the rare website that "doesn't work with your operating system" to work if they want to reach that sweet over-a-billion-user Android market. Win-win for pretty much everyone.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 months ago

Is Firefox’s user share even big enough to have an impact on that?

still think this is a good move tho

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 5 points 6 months ago

It sounds like the idea was actually the other way around: forcing the rare website that doesn't work with Firefox for Android (which only has a small share of the billion-plus-user Android market) to work.