On single edit tab wikis, if your browser is not supported but your settings (or default) says VE you get a blank edit page and no way to fix it
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	Jdforrester-WMF
	Dec 12 2015, 2:10 AM

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This is the FIXME for doing UA parsing. :-)

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	SET: Browser blacklisting checks	mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor	master	+40 -1

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Resolved		Krenair	T89060 VisualEditor is not the editor linked from the diff page
Open		None	T78550 The undo link in the page history leads to the source editor and not VisualEditor
Open		None	T185548 Undo notification is not sent if the editor switches to the visual editor
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Open		None	T102398 Migrate wikis to use a single edit tab which has both visual and wikitext modes and allows on-the-fly switching between them
Resolved		Krenair	T54281 VisualEditor: VE should use the existing "action" URL parameter instead of the new "veaction"
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Resolved		Krenair	T121298 On single edit tab wikis, if your browser is not supported but your settings (or default) says VE you get a blank edit page and no way to fix it

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Jdforrester-WMF created this task.Dec 12 2015, 2:10 AM

Jdforrester-WMF assigned this task to Krenair.

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Jdforrester-WMF added projects: VisualEditor, VisualEditor-MediaWiki.

Jdforrester-WMF added subscribers: Aklapper, Krenair.

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to TR1: Releases on the VisualEditor board.Dec 15 2015, 8:13 PM

@Jdforrester-WMF: I notice the current default VisualEditorBrowserBlacklist blacklists android < 3, but your code in P2373 blacklists < 4, and doesn't have anything about silk, and has a load of blocks at the end which aren't in the BrowserBlacklist?