m.soundcloud.com doesn't show tracks anymore

May need a UA override

I can reliably reproduce the issue (including on desktop if I fake the form factor to be "mobile", otherwise I get redirected to the desktop version of soundcloud.com).

I tried changing the default UA to "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.0.4; MB865 Build/6.7.2-226-EDICS-10) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.114 Mobile Safari/537.36" (this is the default UA for chrome on android on my Atrix2 where m.soundcloud.com renders well), but this didn’t help, I’m still getting the mostly empty page, so it doesn’t look like a UA override would solve the issue. Requires further investigation.

If I enable JS logging (see https://code.launchpad.net/~osomon/webbrowser-app/handle-js-console-msgs/+merge/214687), I’m seeing the following error:

    [JS] (http://m-a-tb.sndcdn.com/all_b82ea7d.js:313) Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'setItem' of null

The culprit is the following bit of JS:

    window.localStorage.setItem("sc-test-private-browsing","1")

If I enable localStorage (by setting 'preferences.localStorageEnabled' to 'true' on the webview), the page loads correctly. The question is: should we enable localStorage by default in the browser?

Both chrome on android and chromium on desktop enable localStorage by default, so it looks like a safe option.

We will get +5points with localStorage enable by default on the html5test.com

This bug was fixed in the package webbrowser-app - 0.23+14.10.20140505.1-0ubuntu1

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