Brennan BensonandMerge Sim fb85f88d64 fix(browser): restore the Chrome-shaped browser identity (STA-7147) (#19927)
* fix(browser): restore the Chrome-shaped browser identity (STA-7147)

#18749 replaced every browser partition's Chrome-shaped UA with Electron's stock
one, so since v1.4.198 the embedded browser announces itself on every non-Google
host as:

  Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like
  Gecko) Orca/1.4.198 Chrome/150.0.7871.224 Electron/43.4.1 Safari/537.36

No browser sends that. Sites that re-check the identity holding a session reject
it: users report being signed out of x.com, LinkedIn and "most websites," and at
least one was signed out of LinkedIn in their own Chrome and met LinkedIn's
"suspicious activity" SMS check -- server-side revocation, which reaches beyond
our app. The repo already documented the mechanism in browser-google-auth-ua.ts:
copied-in cookies "sent under a UA that doesn't match a real first-party browser
get flagged by anti-fraud." That is why the Google auth-host switch exists;
#18749 kept it for accounts.google.com and handed every other host an Electron
identity.

Restore the pre-#18749 session identity: strip the Electron and app tokens, and
rewrite sec-ch-ua to match. Nothing in the cookie-import write path changed --
it never did; cookies were always written correctly and servers were refusing
them.

Deliberately KEPT from #18749, all independent of the UA:
- anti-detection.ts stays deleted. Its premises were measured false on Electron
  43 and its overrides are themselves published bot signatures.
- No Runtime.enable into cross-origin iframes (the documented Cloudflare CDP tell).
- No unconditional CDP debugger attach on every browsing guest.

Known tradeoff, measured: this re-opens #13822. On the unmerged predecessor
branch brennan/sta-3905-cloudflare-ua, commit 9f0a4772fe recorded the stock UA
clearing dash.cloudflare.com 5/5 while every rewritten variant failed 12/12, and
noted that adding client hints does not rescue it. So Cloudflare-gated sites will
show verification failures again until a coherent-identity fix lands. That is a
bounded, in-app annoyance; session revocation damages users' real accounts. A
CDP Emulation.setUserAgentOverride with full userAgentMetadata -- which drives
navigator.userAgentData as well as the headers, and was never tested -- is the
candidate that could satisfy both, and is being measured separately.

Tests: the real-Electron wire-identity test now asserts the stripped identity on
ordinary hosts and Firefox on Google auth hosts. Ablation-verified: neutering
cleanElectronUserAgent turns it red on the Electron-token assertion. Its fixture
also gained an app name -- without one the raw UA carried no app token, so the
Orca/x.y.z half of the cleaner was never exercised.

* fix(browser): finish the identity revert in the files CI caught

browser-session-registry.persistence.test.ts still asserted #18749's behaviour
("keeps the stock UA", "keeps the engine UA"), so the shipped code and its test
disagreed. Caught by CI shard 4/8, not locally: I reverted four test files and
went to typecheck without re-running the browser suite.

Also restores the accurate wording that #18749 generalised away, now that the
behaviour it described is back:
- browser-google-auth-ua.ts: names the Electron/Chrome-shaped UA again as what
  anti-fraud flags, which is the reason the auth-host switch exists at all.
- docs/browser/profiles.mdx: documents the cleaned Chrome UA default and the
  --no-ua-spoof escape hatch, which is real again.
- tests/tools/google-signin-ua-probe.cjs: comments name the live handler.

Deliberately left at #18749's version, because those changes stay correct with
anti-detection.ts deleted:
- browser-manager-viewport.ts: its comment no longer cites the retired
  addScriptToEvaluateOnNewDocument injection.
- browser-webauthn-profile-delete.test.ts: its added webRequest mock is REQUIRED
  by the restored setupClientHintsOverride, so reverting it would break the test.

* fix(browser): keep restored UA hints browser-owned

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Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-10 15:20:34 -07:00
2026-05-04 20:42:03 -07:00
2026-03-16 22:27:51 -07:00
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