google hangouts thinks we are unsupported

Bug #1565055 reported by Pat McGowan
12
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Canonical System Image
Fix Released
High
Bill Filler
webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Olivier Tilloy
Xenial
Fix Released
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

We should be able to work properly with webrtc. Instead I got presented the unsupported page listing chrome, firefox and safari

[Manual test case]
1) Browse to https://hangouts.google.com/
2) Click/tap the "Video Call" button
3) Verify that a new hangout is created, and that both audio and video work (if a camera is available)

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Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
assignee: nobody → Bill Filler (bfiller)
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → 11
status: New → Confirmed
Bill Filler (bfiller)
Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
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Bill Filler (bfiller) wrote :

this was tested on freiza by pat

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Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) wrote :

On arale, after jumping hoops to login, it seems to try to redirect to the normal start page but all I see if a green quotes bubble. Seems the page is not rendered properly.

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Needs more thorough testing, but I got it working on desktop and frieza with the following UA overrides added to ua-overrides-desktop.js:

      // Google hangouts (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1565055)
      ["^https?:\/\/hangouts\.google\.com\/", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/49.0.2623.87 Safari/537.36"],
      ["^https?:\/\/talkgadget\.google\.com\/hangouts\/", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/49.0.2623.87 Safari/537.36"],
      ["^https?:\/\/plus\.google\.com\/hangouts\/", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/49.0.2623.87 Safari/537.36"],

I’ll look into what’s needed to make it work on arale/krillin tomorrow.

Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → In Progress
Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package webbrowser-app - 0.23+16.04.20160509.3-0ubuntu1

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webbrowser-app (0.23+16.04.20160509.3-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ CI Train Bot ]
  * Resync trunk.

  [ Olivier Tilloy ]
  * Fine-tune the custom memory-pressure handler, from data gathered on
    several devices. (LP: #1576639)
  * Update translation template.

 -- Olivier Tilloy <email address hidden> Mon, 09 May 2016 17:56:03 +0000

Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
description: updated
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Pat, or anyone else affected,

Accepted webbrowser-app into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webbrowser-app/0.23+16.04.20161028-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: New → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Tested and verified in an up-to-date xenial amd64 VM, with webbrowser-app 0.23+16.04.20161028-0ubuntu1.

I am able to create a new video call. I don’t have a builtin webcam, but I verified that audio input works with my builtin microphone.

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Hello Pat, or anyone else affected,

Accepted webbrowser-app into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webbrowser-app/0.23+16.04.20161028-0ubuntu2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

tags: removed: verification-done
tags: added: verification-needed
Mathew Hodson (mhodson)
Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu Xenial):
importance: Undecided → High
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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Tested and verified in an up-to-date xenial amd64 VM, with webbrowser-app 0.23+16.04.20161028-0ubuntu2.

I am able to create a new video call. I don’t have a builtin webcam, but I verified that audio input works with my builtin microphone.

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package webbrowser-app - 0.23+16.04.20161028-0ubuntu2

---------------
webbrowser-app (0.23+16.04.20161028-0ubuntu2) xenial; urgency=medium

  * SRU for selected bug fixes:
    - LP: #1565055: support for google hangouts
    - LP: #1573017: SAML detection logic broken in webapp container
    - LP: #1572673: invalid variable access error in webapp container
    - LP: #1466427: dynamic Ubuntu version in default UA string
    - LP: #1576639: fine-tune the custom memory-pressure handler
    - LP: #1581025: secure connection icon not showing
    - LP: #1580290: only load the current tab when the session is restored
    - LP: #1577806: browser and container open under the same instance
    - LP: #1565063: dynamic Chromium version in default UA string

 -- Olivier Tilloy <email address hidden> Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:17:33 +0000

Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for webbrowser-app has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

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