Add a UA override to the G+ webapp so that it gets the shiny new version

Bug #1426143 reported by Olivier Tilloy
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Following up the discussion in the comments of https://plus.google.com/108243663090085262773/posts/BfNakrqFvaJ , it seems that if we provide a UA override that says that we are chromium 40, we’ll get the shiny new version of G+. Worth giving it a try.

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Riccardo Padovani (rpadovani) wrote :

I don't think it's only about UA string, I tried different things (bumping Chromium version, using Chrome, I also tried this string that actually works on Android: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux;Android 4.4.4; GT-I9505) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, l
ike Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.109 Mobile Safari/537.36) but nothing changed

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Same here, I’ve tried various overrides to no avail.

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

The following UA string gets us the new version: "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0; Nexus 5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2125.102 Mobile Safari/537.36"

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

I’ve tested the webapp with the updated UA string, and when opening a post there doesn’t seem to be a way to go back to the feed from within the page. So we’d need to add some chrome to the webapp.

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