whatsapp doesn't recognize chromium snap user agent

[Carlos Pita]

At some time there was the issue of Whatsapp not recognizing the user agent of Chromium, which was closed because it was the understanding that the problem should be fixed by Whatsapp and not Ubuntu:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1808853?comments=all

I agree with the rationale there, but later Whatsapp seems to indeed have fixed that, at least according to Olivier Tilloy:

> It looks like whatsapp fixed the user agent detection for the chromium ubuntu packages, this is now working fine. However it's still refusing to work with the chromium snap package.

(see https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromium-discuss/MbfH-OZGbLc/4JhhGlg-CgAJ)

So, since Canonical has reasons to promote the snap Chromium package as the official Chromium package, which is announced as supported by Ubuntu, it seems to me that the snap bug does belong here.

I'm reporting the problem for:
  * Chromium snap latest/stable 81.0.4044.122 2020-04-23
  * Ubuntu 20.04

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.