Hello!

Speaking from a webmaster's perspective, I wish Skyfire identified itself properly with its user agent string. Right now, it's apparently Firefox... there's no way to sniff that it's Skyfire programmatically, and there's no way to track Skyfire hits separately of Firefox.

While I understand that Firefox is what's running on the back-end (basically), the string should still identify somehow as Skyfire.

Even just a simple bit stuck on the end of the existing user agent would work:

Skyfire/1.1

Thanks!

Yeah, this has been brought up before and nothing seems to really have come of it. As ludicrously huge and descriptive as user agent strings can (and typically are) these days, adding a "Skyfire" to the end wouldn't be a big deal.

Couple of things to consider:

1. Some sites (probably not many) *may* intentionally try to block Skyfire if they decide that you shouldn't be using their content on a mobile device. I don't know if the recent issues with Hulu are along those lines, but it's possible. As a corollary to this, some companies may NEED to block access, legally, because they don't have rights to stream content to mobile. Fox TV may give Hulu rights to stream Rescue Me to desktop PCs, but someone else may have the rights to stream to mobile devices as a completely separate legal deal.

2. Skyfire is meant to be as close to a desktop browser as you can get without being on a desktop. With that in mind, web authors shouldn't have to author specifically for Skyfire so there should be no real need to know if a browser is Skyfire or not. You just know that it's a FF2 based browser and that should be good enough. You can always build something into your site that asks what browser someone is using, let them set it in their profile, let them set their preferred default viewport or whatever else you want to do in order to cater to a smaller screen or whatever.

There are probably other points, but those are the ones that pop to mind immediately.

On a related topic, some light reading:

http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

I used to use the Blazer browser on my Clie TH-55. It had a feature that let you customize the browser identification string to your own liking. So perhaps that's a feature request you'd like to make?

Yes I think it best to be able to change the string pushed out the web... it would be best if we can choose things like IE6,IE7... etc.

The best place to submit feature requests and ideas is our Android community site:

http://getsatisfaction.com/skyfire/ideas/popular

Only I don't want anything to do with Android.

I'm a Windows Mobile supporter and if I had to choose something else it would be the iPhone.

Android is not going to be well liked by Corp. USA sorry is just not going to happen.

> besides why have a Feature Request and Browser Feedback section if nobody is going to read it?

The Feature Requests and Browser Feedback section as well as the other threads, Are read thoroughly by Myself, Dave and the other moderators nothing is skipped over unless its been requested before or ongoing.

All other OS's are catching up, WinMo was the first to get Skyfire support.