Bug 18221 – Yahoo Mail sniffs for Safari instead of Webkit

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: INVALID
• Component: Evangelism

[Daniel Weinstein]

I attempted to login to Yahoo mail using several Webkit based browsers. On all except Safari, I got  the message "Sorry, the all-new Yahoo! Mail does not support your browser."  

Apparently they are Sniffing for "Safari", instead of sniffing for "Webkit"

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Confirmed: changing the browser name in Safari 3.1 UA string makes Yahoo mail complain about unsupported browser.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

<rdar://problem/5874454>

[Robert Blaut]

As I tested today I cannot see any warning message about unsupported browser on All-new Yahoo! Mail using WebKit r35203. Any confirmations?

[Daniel Weinstein]

(In reply to comment #3)
> As I tested today I cannot see any warning message about unsupported browser on
> All-new Yahoo! Mail using WebKit r35203. Any confirmations?
> 

I tested it today in iCab and got the unsupported browser warning.   When I changed the UA to identify as Safari, it worked correctly.   What browser did you test it in?  The "Webkit" nightly builds actually use your installed Safari .

[Robert Blaut]

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > As I tested today I cannot see any warning message about unsupported browser on
> > All-new Yahoo! Mail using WebKit r35203. Any confirmations?
> > 
> 
> I tested it today in iCab and got the unsupported browser warning.   When I
> changed the UA to identify as Safari, it worked correctly.   What browser did
> you test it in?  The "Webkit" nightly builds actually use your installed Safari

You are absolutely right. Of course I tested the Yahoo Mail in WebKit running under Safari on Mac and it uses Safari user agent string. Sorry for false alarm :(