[texworks] "Download TeXworks" box, please test

Paul A Norman paul.a.norman at gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 00:05:42 CET 2011


Fine in standard Chrome (16.0.912.63 ) on Windows Xp

navigator.appVersion = 5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7
navigator.userAgent = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.7
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7
navigator.appCodeName = Mozilla
navigator.appName = Netscape
navigator.platform = Win32

Downloads TeXworks-setup-0.4.3-r858.exe successfully

paul

On 19 December 2011 09:37, Atri <badshah400 at aim.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 00:51 +0530, Atri wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 14:33 +0100, Stefan Löffler wrote:
> > > available at
> > >
> http://web.student.tuwien.ac.at/~e0325258/projects/c/texworks/testTwDownloads/testTwDownloads.html
> > >
> >
> > > It would be great if you could head over to the page mentioned above,
> > > and if you see the box tell me if the info in it is correct. For
> >
> > From openSUSE 12.1, using Firefox 8.0, I am able to see the box but it
> > only offers me "Download Sources" instead of links to suitable packages
> > for openSUSE. Debuginfo is pasted below...
> >
> > navigator.appVersion = 5.0 (X11)
> > navigator.userAgent = Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0)
> > Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
> > navigator.appCodeName = Mozilla
> > navigator.appName = Netscape
> > navigator.platform = Linux x86_64
> >
>
> Actually, I now see that Firefox since version 4.0 does not allow the
> reporting of vendor or distribution specific information in the
> userAgent string. This is discussed in
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591573
>
> So I am not sure how only based on the useragent string, one would be
> able to distinguish between ubuntu or openSUSE for example, or even
> detect if the Linux distribution being used is one of the two. The
> userAgent string in both cases (Ubuntu and openSUSE) would only report
> "Linux x86_64" (or i686).
>
> Similarly, detection of openSUSE does not work on Google Chrom as well,
> and I can see only the "Get sources" link. Debuginfo from Google Chrome
> follows:-
>
> navigator.appVersion = 5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML,
> like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7
> navigator.userAgent = Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.7
> (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7
> navigator.appCodeName = Mozilla
> navigator.appName = Netscape
> navigator.platform = Linux i686
>
> Hope this information is useful.
> Bye
> --
> Atri
>
>
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