Mobile Browser User Agents

We’ve recently run into a lot of issues with the In-App Mobile Browsers on Facebook and Twitter, so I thought I’d publish the User Agents for these browsers to help others looking for the same information.

Particularly, the issue we were experiencing was sites that were linked to from Facebook and Twitter, which had links in a post that were supposed to open in a new window with target=”_blank” were just leading to “about:blank” pages and not redirecting. Based on the user agent we’ve changed the links to target="_self", which I know is bad practice but until we notify all the editors to stop using target="_blank" I don’t see an easier workaround.

Safari

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_1_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12B466 Safari/600.1.4

Twitter

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_1_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/12B466

Facebook

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_1_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/12B466 [FBAN/FBIOS;FBAV/23.0.0.7.11;FBBV/6551639;FBDV/iPhone5,1;FBMD/iPhone;FBSN/iPhone OS;FBSV/8.1.3;FBSS/2; FBCR/AT&T;FBID/phone;FBLC/en_US;FBOP/5]

https://gist.github.com/NerdyDillinger/5e1083f65b8a3c406719

30 x 30, Banksy, No Fun

Went to Rachel’s “30 x 30” art showing at Gallery Bar. Awesome artist.

Saw the Banky piece in the Lower East Side on the way to No Fun for some Gin and Tonics.

Then met up with Gillian and the gang for drinks at Epstein’s for Kathryn’s going away.

All in all good Saturday night.

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Rego Park

So since July, Gillian and I have been living in Rego Park, Queens. Closer to friends and family is always a good thing, with just the right touch of solitude. It really is wonderful sometimes that I can’t imagine it to be true.

Been working a lot. iOS 5 was also finally released. Exciting times. Expect a site refresh soon.