Currently it's quite tedious to upgrade a browser for a factory: you have to
re-register the updated browser, otherwise you'll get an error as follows:
Unknown user agent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; de) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.11.
It would be far more comfortable if this would get handled automatically:
1. Just register the command to execute the browser
2. The browser would access some URL internal to browsershots.org, where the
user agent string gets read
3. The entry for the factory entry gets updated with the user agent string
reported by the browser (from 2.)
When updating a browser (which may happen automatically for security updates
via package management), browsershots currently already detects that the
browser is unknown (therefore the error I've mentioned initially).
If this happens, the user agent string for this browser entry would get updated
automatically, too.
In this case however, the request should be considered invalid though: the
browser is not the one initially requested for this job (e.g. Firefox 3.5 =>
3.6).
Original issue reported on code.google.com by dhahler@gmail.com on 29 Jun 2010 at 10:57
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
dhahler@gmail.comon 29 Jun 2010 at 10:57