Citrix thinks Chrome is old on my machine

mcswell2001

When I try to launch a Citrix desktop from Vivaldi (v4, and the last sub-version of v3), it tells me that Chrome is outdated on my desktop. I don't have Chrome (yuck) installed, and Citrix doesn't complain when I launch it from Edge (also yuck), so I think it's complaining about Chromium, which IIUC is what Vivaldi uses under the hood.

I can get past all the ominous warnings from Citrix, but it's a nuisance. Is Vivaldi using an outdated version of Chromium? If so, why is it so old? Or is Citrix mis-identifying Vivaldi as if it was Chrome itself?

Pathduck

@mcswell2001 Vivaldi uses Chrome/91.0.4472.102 which is actually slightly newer than the latest Chrome stable release.

You can check the version in Help > About in the User Agent line.

Are you using ICA files to launch Citrix? In that case what browser you're using should be pretty much irrelevant.

mcswell2001

Double-plus weird, then.

FWIW: Vivaldi 4.0.2312.24 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
Revision 4270d6e75964ef662b3e0e121ba3d6b6b03e4b71

(I don't know what the revision # is, I guess it's the git hash stamp.)

The process uses an ICA file, although that's pretty much transparent to the user in Vivaldi, once you've done it the first time. I think Citrix must be trying to validate my software installation, sort of like some VPNs do. And for some reason it thinks Chrome (or as I was guessing, Chromium) is out of date.

I didn't see anything on the Citrix website (although it's much harder to find such things there than it is here at the Vivaldi forum). I may look around over there some more.

mcswell2001

@mcswell2001 (talking to myself...) Went to the Citrix site and reminded myself that it's hard to ask questions there.

I wonder if this (two years old now) is the reason Citrix thinks I have an old version of Chrome:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/vivaldi-to-change-user-agent-string-to-chrome-due-to-unfair-blocking/

Pathduck

@mcswell2001 Well, like I said, the ICA file is just a text file with instructions for the locally installed Citrix Client. What browser is used to download the ICA file should be completely irrelevant to Citrix, as long as the ICA file gets passed to the OS for opening in the client. In most cases you can just download the ICA file directly, save it locally and bypass the browser completely.

It's been a few years since I worked with anything Citrix-related. But that's how it worked then (10 years ago). Maybe if Citrix had a in-browser-based client it would be a completely different matter.

Isn't Citrix like really expensive and surely you have access to their support organisation?

mcswell2001

Maybe our org has access to the Citrix forum, but my issue doesn't rise to the level where our IT department wants to ping Citrix about it, and follow up on the ping. I might be the only user in our org that uses Vivaldi, and our IT doesn't seem to have heard of other users with this problem.

So I guess I'll just go on ignoring the warnings.

Thanks for the insight!

TbGbe · Win: Snapshot Vivaldi 7.4.3671.3

@mcswell2001 said in Citrix thinks Chrome is old on my machine:

Vivaldi 4.0.2312.24 (Stable channel) (64-bit)

@Pathduck

Vivaldi uses Chrome/91.0.4472.102

That was https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/minor-update-for-vivaldi-desktop-browser-4-0 which @McSwell has not installed.

Also, there has been another update (but not to the Chromium core) see https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/62477/minor-update-2-for-vivaldi-desktop-browser-4-0

mcswell2001

To be clearer: Citrix has been complaining at me for several weeks that my alleged version of Chrome is out of date. The issue has persisted through several minor versions and one major version (3-->4) of Vivaldi, IIRC.