ghacks.net - desktop site instead of mobile site

[webcompat-bot]

URL: ghacks.net
Browser / Version: Firefox Mobile 48.0
Operating System: Android 4.4.2
Problem type: Desktop site instead of mobile site

Steps to Reproduce

1. Navigate to: ghacks.net

Expected Behavior: mobile site is served

Actual Behavior: mobile site is served on Chrome but on Firefox for Android, desktop site is served.

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[karlcow]

seeAlso: #870

On Firefox

On Chrome

And… https://b.marfeel.com/statics/www.ghacks.net/index/main.s.js?build=11810

Marfeel is a framework which has been contacted in the past. The Marfeel team has not yet delivered a compatible version of their framework. We suggested in the past what needs to be fixed. fwiw the site is working on Gecko with our -webkit- implementation, but it requires user-agent override.

SeeAlso: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1149160

[karlcow]

Note that @Marfeel is on GitHub, but not really active.

I wonder if we could restart the discussion started a while ago @xbeumala

[karlcow]

Marfeel CTO is on Github @oliverfernandez but I doubt he is reading his tweets.

[xbeumala]

Hi, both @oliverfernandez and me are listening to this conversation. At this point this is a matter of prioritization of the tasks. Supporting Firefox has an important impact on testing and apply changes to historical webkit only features that we've been using. I'm pretty sure we'll into this, we'll let you know ASAP as it's fixed

[karlcow]

We are still interested to hear what are the features which are really unique to webkit.

For example, this is ghacks.net on Firefox 51 when we cheat about -webkit-.

[karlcow]

The only remaining thing according to @oliverfernandez in Bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1149160 was the -webkit- prefixes to switch to Web standards (and the UA sniffing which is done by marfeel framework).

[cipriansv]

I retested the issue and it is still reproducible on my side.

Tested with:
Browser / Version: Firefox Nightly 68.1a1 (2019-08-20), Firefox Preview 1.3.0 (Build #12321503)
Operating System: Huawei P10 (Android 8.0) - 1080 x 1920 pixels (~432 ppi pixel density)

[softvision-oana-arbuzov]

The layout has changed and the issue no longer occurs. I get the same mobile layout as in Chrome.

Tested with:
Browser / Version: Firefox Nightly 90.0a1 (🦎 90.0a1-20210510093555)
Operating System: Google Pixel 5 (Android 11) - 1080 x 2340 pixels, 19.5:9 ratio (~432 ppi density)