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Antergos website browser detection bug #33

Open sirredbeard opened 6 years ago

sirredbeard commented 6 years ago

Note: I hope this is the correct location to file a bug regarding antergos. I checked all the repos and this one seemed the most relevant. There did not seem to a good fit on the Antergos forums either.

When visiting Antergos.com with Microsoft Edge, a banner appears at the top of the website about being on an outdated browser: capture1000

My version of Microsoft Edge is not out of date though, I am running the most recent Edge in the April 2018 Creators Update, it confirms when you click "More Information": capture2000

This third-party website, whatbrowser.org, that is linked to bizarrely recommends Internet Explorer as a replacement for Edge. Internet Explorer has been deprecated by Microsoft and the link to it on this page at whatbrowser.org is 404.

Whatever WordPress plugin is providing this banner and links to whatbrowser.org is incorrectly identifying browsers as out of date and recommending actual out of date browsers as replacements. I think removing plugin would improve the new user experience.

karasu commented 6 years ago

@sirredbeard Thanks for letting us know.

Let us check this out. We will get back to you as soon as possible.

Thanks again!

lots0logs commented 6 years ago

Hmm..it appears the latest version of Edge is 25. Have you checked Windows Updates for available updates?

sirredbeard commented 6 years ago

The latest non-Insider version of Edge is not but 25, from 2015, but actually 42.17134.1.0, shipped in the April 2018 Creators Update, which I am running, as I mentioned.

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The Antergos.com plugin says it's out of date in the banner, then says it is up to date on the website, that I am running 17 (mis-detecting the engine version # for the browser version # perhaps) when I am running 42, and recommends Internet Explorer as a replacement, which has been deprecated, and Safari, which is no longer supported by Apple on Windows.

It is just a mess and should be pulled, it's broken, misleading, and not helpful to visitors as it recommends browsers that have been deprecated and carry significant security risks.

lots0logs commented 6 years ago

Actually IE11 is still maintained so recommending it is not necessarily incorrect. Sorry I didn't check the version of Edge that is actually the latest. I just checked the version the browser check app looks for (which is 25 or later). Its Cloudflare that offers the feature so I'll let them know it seems to be reporting the wrong version for Edge. Thanks for letting us know.