Status: Untriaged Owner: [email protected] CC: [email protected] Labels: Type-Bug Pri-2 OS-All Area-ChromeFrame
New issue 24569 by [email protected]: chromeframe user agent confuses browser detection http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=24569 Web sites that use a simple regex for "chrome" to detect the Chrome browser will confuse IE for Chrome when Chrome Frame is installed. If they the web site thinks it's talking to Chrome instead of IE, it may attempt to let the user install Chrome themes and extensions, record incorrect analytics data, block the user if Chrome isn't supported, and so on. I'm not sure how often this happens in the wild although it happened to me once while working on a Chrome extension. There are workarounds for the web site but I could see it causing unexpected behavior since there's a lot of browser sniffing code that's not aware of Chrome Frame yet. It might make sense to use a string that doesn't have Chrome such as "cfplugin" "cframe" "chromiumframe" etc. to make it harder to mistake a Chrome-Frame-enabled IE for Chrome. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
