Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoYouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU appears to be a widespread browser fixwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square51linkfedilinkarrow-up1594arrow-down16
arrow-up1588arrow-down1external-linkYouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU appears to be a widespread browser fixwww.tomshardware.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square51linkfedilink
minus-squareFlaky@iusearchlinux.fyilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·1 year agoThe weirder thing is Firefox on ARM being detected as a HiSense TV. I did a cursory search to see if HiSense ever used Firefox OS on the TV and it doesn’t seem like it. Panasonic seemed to be the only manufacturer using it.
minus-squareericswpark@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-21 year agoCould be that the developers for the HiSense TV just copy-pasted whatever UA into their browser codebase and called it a day.
The weirder thing is Firefox on ARM being detected as a HiSense TV. I did a cursory search to see if HiSense ever used Firefox OS on the TV and it doesn’t seem like it. Panasonic seemed to be the only manufacturer using it.
Could be that the developers for the HiSense TV just copy-pasted whatever UA into their browser codebase and called it a day.