Apple Safari offers Mac version instead of Windows

[Cris Dywan]

This issue is much like bug 892481 but on Windows, that's why I decided to keep it separate. We may or may not decide to handle Windows differently to other platforms when forging the user agent.

http://www.apple.com/safari/download/

The download will offer Mac OS X versions of Safari on Windows (and Linux).

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

Concerns from one of the duplicate reports:
- Midori wrongly ends up as OS X in statistics.
- Websites offer wrong platform-specific downloads.

However, the original reasoning remains:
- Websites in extreme cases check exact user agent strings to enable features, prominently Google-based products, that's why OS X appears in the string.
- User complaints indicate that lack of features is worse than a wrong operating system.

A proposal for a better solution is most welcome.

[Andrea Basso (voluntatefaber)]

I'm not sure, but I think Firefox on Linux has no problem with Google, so masking as Firefox would be a better solution.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

I added a Chrome identification and switched "Automatic" to using that. So we get the correct operating system, and from some testing things like instant search work with that.