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Identification of Kindle browser
New Kindle 3 has also new browser. It’s based on WebKit and I have to say, it’s noticeably better than the previous one. The browsing, if the page is focused on text, is really pleasant.
However if you’re webmaster or simply some website owner you might be wondering how the browser in Kindle identifies itself when accessing your page. Probably because you may consider showing mobile version of your site or you just wanna know how many visitors are accessing your page from Kindle.
Well, it’s:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; en-US) AppleWebKit/528.5+ (KHTML, like Gecko, Safari/528.5+) Version/4.0 Kindle/3.0 (screen 600x800; rotate)
with current latest firmware (515460094). Exactly same identification is sent when the screen is in landscape mode.
There's 4 Comments So Far
September 8th, 2010 at 23:12
Is the Kindle 3 reader able to open web pages stored in local memory or does the browser work only using Wi-Fi/3G connection?
September 8th, 2010 at 23:17
It should work using “file:///mnt/us/documents/foobar.html”. But if I consider spending time putting HTMLs into Kindle I would rather create MOBI/PDF files or use Amazon’s conversion.
May 13th, 2011 at 15:10
Has anyone worked out if there is a way to get a unique id from a kindle browsing a page ?
http_x_fsn appears to be a dead end, the SN or mac should be accesible via the java locally, but can javascript in the browser access the local info ?
May 13th, 2011 at 15:12
Hard to say. But I think allowing that would create a privacy hole.
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