Wrong user agent on Firefox iPadOS

[magsout]

I reported a website on webcompat using my iPad, but webcompat detected Safari instead of Firefox Daylight 100.1 (9384)

My user agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1 Safari/605.1.15

[ksy36]

Thanks @magsout. This is expected as Firefox on an iPad is returning Safari desktop UA by default, see https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/blob/main/Shared/UserAgent.swift#L52.

I recall the team is using desktop Safari desktop UA at the moment because there were a number of reports with sites showing browser out-of-date warnings for Firefox iPad UA (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/6310 for example). I think Safari on an iPad is also returning Safari desktop UA.

[ksy36]

So maybe we could try and improve this on our side as there is device-tablet label that's coming from the iOS reporter on an iPad: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Adevice-tablet.

If the UA is Safari on desktop AND the label is present, we can change that text to something like "Did you encounter the issue on this device (iPad) using this browser (Firefox)"