• maxthon's useragent string is inconsistent


    FB Purity

    i've just installed maxthon 4.9 and have found a bug

    maxthon now seems to be changing its useragent  ( window.navigator.userAgentdepending on which website its visiting. if its visiting facebook or google, it reports its useragent as 
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.75.14 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0.3 Safari/7046A194A"

    but if it visits other sites, it reports its useragent as being

    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Maxthon/4.9.3.1000 Chrome/39.0.2146.0 Safari/537.36"

    this is quite annoying as it has broken my maxthon extension "FB Purity", which works fine in Maxthon 4.4 so i can only assume this bug is specific to Maxthon 4.9

    Please can you fix this, and make the useragent string consistent?


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    " but if it visits other sites, it reports its useragent as being

    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Maxthon/4.9.3.1000 Chrome/39.0.2146.0 Safari/537.36" "

     

    Could you provide some examples for this "other sites"? Then I can have a try.

    Thanks and looking forward to your reply.

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    5 hours ago, BugMiss006 said:

    Could you provide some examples for this "other sites"? Then I can have a try.

    Other sites that aren't google or facebook, eg maxthon.com or forum.

    See attached images.

    The UA as set in settings is:
    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Maxthon/4.9.3.1000 Chrome/39.0.2146.0 Safari/537.36

    This matches what is displayed on the mx forum image, but google changes the chrome version to 49.x and adds WOW64 to the system string.

    I don't think this is unusual. Browsers are doing this more and more to ensure sites that are designed for a particular browser/platform work on another. Apparently android spoofs a Safari UA to ensure site compatibility.

    Seeing this is a desktop browser, it would be nice to have some more options to play with when it comes to advanced settings such as this.

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    6 hours ago, Magdalene said:

    Use one of the UAs here

    Won't work. The problem is that Maxthon ignores the defined UA and spoofs another preset one for particular sites.

    See the images above.

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