# Chrome OS displays as 'unknown device' on user account page

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/chrome-os-displays-as-unknown-device-on-user-account-page/119047
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [May 30, 2019, 12:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chrome-os-displays-as-unknown-device-on-user-account-page/119047 "2019-05-30T00:29:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![D8vid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@D8vid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/D8vid)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 12:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chrome-os-displays-as-unknown-device-on-user-account-page/119047/1 "2019-05-30T00:29:42Z")

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a minor glitch, at /u/USERNAME/preferences/account, **Chrome OS** devices are listed as ‘? unknown device’.

User agent string typically looks like:

`Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 11895.118.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.159 Safari/537.36`

(Chrome OS now \>1% global PC OS market share, and \>20% US laptop sales; big in education)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chrome-os-displays-as-unknown-device-on-user-account-page/119047/2 "2019-05-30T00:32:52Z")

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Maybe we can detect this @nbianca?

[https://developers.whatismybrowser.com/useragents/explore/operating\_system\_name/chromeos/](https://developers.whatismybrowser.com/useragents/explore/operating_system_name/chromeos/)

`CrOS (armv|x86)` perhaps as a regex match?

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### Author: ![nbianca](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nbianca/32/157984_2.png) [@nbianca](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nbianca)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chrome-os-displays-as-unknown-device-on-user-account-page/119047/3 "2019-05-30T13:36:22Z")

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Now, Chrome OS devices are detected.

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/8196af165d8de50e7eb0fc9282aefae37622b760](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/8196af165d8de50e7eb0fc9282aefae37622b760)

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### Author: ![D8vid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@D8vid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/D8vid)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 8:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chrome-os-displays-as-unknown-device-on-user-account-page/119047/4 "2019-05-30T20:13:32Z")

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Thanks! Rebuilt with this fix and Chrome OS detection is working now.

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chrome-os-displays-as-unknown-device-on-user-account-page/119047/5 "2019-05-30T20:14:49Z")

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