Nativefier: WhatsApp Web requires Chrome update

Created on 26 Jul 2019 · 2Comments · Source: jiahaog/nativefier

Description

On opening the app I'm told that "WhatsApp works with Google Chrome 49+" and I should update Google Chrome.

Details

OS: 4.19.59-1-MANJARO.

Steps to reproduce issue

nativefier web.whatsapp.com
Then open the app

Relevant screenshot:

Source

input-variable

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Fixed: Change the user agent to Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36.

input-variable on 26 Jul 2019

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Something else that I've found works is changing the user-agent when packaging.

nativefier web.whatsapp.com --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36"
This seems like a long-term fix (until WhatsApp requires a new version of chrome).

input-variable on 26 Jul 2019

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