HERE asks to download the Android app on first launch

[Brendan Donegan]

Prerequisites:

HERE webapp has never been launched before

Steps to reproduce:

1. Launch HERE
2. Accept location prompt
3. Dismiss prompts until you see the one asking to install the Android app

Expected result:

This prompt should never be shown since we're on Ubuntu

Actual result:

It is shown and could confuse users apart from being irrelevant

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu RTM 14.09
Package: webapp-container 0.23+15.04.20141218~rtm-0ubuntu1 [origin: unknown]
Uname: Linux 3.4.67 armv7l
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: armhf
Date: Fri Jan 23 14:44:40 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-23 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch) - armhf (20150123-030204)
SourcePackage: webbrowser-app
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

This is yet another instance of a website incorrectly parsing the UA string and assuming that the browser is running on android.

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

Ubuntu Insiders unboxing their new BQ phones for the first time were hit by this. I think perhaps it shouldn't be "low".

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Do we have any contacts at Nokia and has anybody reached out to them? As we're demonstrating with Youtube, trying to work around these issues by changing the user agent string is becoming a never-ending effort.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

I couldn’t agree more. If HERE is an officially supported webapp, we need to ensure that it recognizes our browser with its default UA string and doesn’t mistake us for an android device.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

'webbrowser-app' is no longer included in any currently supported release of Ubuntu. I'm closing this as 'Invalid' in order to tidy up the outstanding list of '100 Papercuts' bug reports.