SUMMARY Opening https://web.whatsapp.com/ says "WhatsApp works with Google Chrome 36+" STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open https://web.whatsapp.com/ OBSERVED RESULT Msg: "WhatsApp works with Google Chrome 36+" EXPECTED RESULT Whatsapp web opens SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: kernal 4.12.14 (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.12.6 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.45 Qt Version: 5.9.4 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Falkon 3.0.1 QtWebEngine 5.9.4
For me this just got fixed today (perhaps due to server-side changes)
That means what? ;-) What was fixed and in what release will that be and when?
That means it was fixed on the whatsapp website, no changes needed on the local side (at least with Qt 5.12.1)
I have just tried it for a few time now and when Falkon tries to open this page the same "WhatsApp works with Google Chrome 36+" message are displayed.
From my experience, the behaviour of WhatsApp Web is inconsistent. Sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. The first time I experienced this error it was enough to close Falkon and open it again. Some time after that WhatsApp Web stopped working for several days and I decided to use a different browser just for this site. Now that I don't need it, it works... While attempting to solve the issue, I tried tweaking the user agent, but saw no difference.
Sorry to beat the drum, but other browser like FF and Opera work just fine with whatsapp web.
If I change the user agent in the preferences and look at the web developer tools for the headers used on the request, it seems the user agent is not changed at all. Can you please check if your browser is using the changed user agent?
whatsmyuseragent.org indicates the user agent is changed. While looking for a solution yesterday (I don't find any) it seems that other ones have the same problem: https://meetfranz.com/support Don't know "what" is cleaned up here for their solution. As I tried to remove the whatsapp cookies yesterday, it seems that the cookie removal is broken. At least "remove" does not remove anything.
Solution: * Open web.whatsapp.com * Open the web developer tools * Go to the "application" tab * Select "clear storage" * Ensure all is selected * Press "clear site data" * Close the web developer tools * Reload page
The only point that needs to be activated for deletion is "Unregister service workers"
You can make your way around their block by changing your User Agent to "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/82.0" I used the same User Agent to get my Gmail to work.
*** Bug 447986 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 462978 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I still have this issue. https://web.whatsapp.com/ shows "WhatsApp funktioniert mit Google Chrome 60+" I have already tried step to change browser id to "Mozilla..." but this did not fix it. I would like to follow the steps described above as a solution, but: "Open the web developer tools" ==> where is this option to be found? Anything else I can try?
It seems WhatsApp is likely never going to work on Falkon because of their awful web practices. I have Falkon 24.02.2 installed and it still fails to load. Even though it's based on Chrome 112 as seen in the user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Falkon/24.02.2 QtWebEngine/6.6.3 Chrome/112.0.5615.213 Safari/537.36