Monday 3 March 2014

Firefox OS Identification


Firefox OS is a new mobile phone operating system. which is open source and Linux based.

The ZTE Open is the first Firefox OS based phone from a major producer, and this is what I tested to see how different counters reported a visit to this website.

ZTE_Open_browser_and_os_identification

The user agent string is:

Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0

which should identify as Firefox 18 / Firefox OS


Firefox / Unknown:

BraveNet
GoStats
24Log
SiteMeter


Firefox 18 / Unknown:

ExtremeTracking
ShinyStats  


Firefox 18 / Firefox OS:

Statcounter
W3

Thus, currently, only two counters correctly identify Firefox OS ~ Statcounter, and W3.