Closed Bug 454828 Opened 16 years ago Closed 14 years ago

search.labs.familysearch.org -- Web Site Sniffs for "Firefox" Instead of "Gecko"

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: david, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 SeaMonkey/1.1.11, NOT Firefox/2.0.0.16 Build Identifier: At the indicated URL, using SeaMonkey results in a warning that an unsupported browser is being used. Necessary navigation items are then missing from the pages resulting from a search. Spoofing Firefox with the UA string below resolves this problem, thus proving invalid sniffing. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 SeaMonkey/1.1.11, NOT Firefox/2.0.0.16 Reproducible: Always See <news://news.mozilla.org:119/mozilla.support.seamonkey>, thread with subject "Flash problem" started 9/11/2008 8:31 AM PDT.
Confirmed using Camino trunk without "like Firefox" in the UA string. David, have you contacted the site?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: PC → All
I just now sent a message to the site using their Web-form. This was delayed because navigation to the form does not work unless I spoof Firefox.
Blocks: geckoisgecko
INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009. If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself. Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
It now appears to work.
Resolution: INCOMPLETE → WORKSFORME
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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