User-Agent change breaks sniffing on e.g. meet.google.com

[William Grant]

Not sure whether this has been already reported:
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Google Drive is rendered in a weird way, see attached file.
Google Meet is telling me "Meet doesn't work on your browser"

What steps will reproduce the problem?
* Update chromium with `snap refresh chromium` from 110.0.5481.100 to 110.0.5481.177
* Open Google Drive/Google Meet

What happens instead?
* No proposals for files during search in Google Drive
* Old-fashioned look & feel (See screenshot)
* Google Meet is telling me: "Meet doesn't work on your browser"

uname -a
Linux frn-xps-15 5.19.0-31-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Jan 20 15:20:08 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 22.10
Release: 22.10

snap list chromium --all
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
chromium 110.0.5481.100 2333 latest/stable canonical✓ disabled
chromium 110.0.5481.177 2356 latest/stable canonical✓ -

[William Grant (wgrant)]

This is because of https://git.launchpad.net/~chromium-team/chromium-browser/+git/snap-from-source/commit/?h=stable&id=42ed9c6a14ae9631d0a200dff1674e60560a3d28, which inserted "Ubuntu; " inside the "X11; Linux" part of the User-Agent that lots of services sniff.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[William Grant (wgrant)]

As a workaround, install a User-Agent switcher extension (e.g. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg) and set a value closer to the old one, e.g. "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

[Franziska Naepelt (fnaepelt)]

The screenshot mention in the ticket.

[Nathan Teodosio (nteodosio)]

Temporary workaround while this isn't solved:

  chromium --user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'

[Nathan Teodosio (nteodosio)]

Reverted to working snap. Thanks for the report.