Closed Bug 548303 Opened 15 years ago Closed 11 years ago

theyallmustgo.com -- sniffs for "Firefox", tells other Gecko browsers they are "unsupported" or "incompatible"

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

defect
Not set
critical

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: swfind, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 GTB6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 GTB6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) The exact error is : An Error has occured in the application! Incompatible Browser: Mozilla 1.0.9 You are attempting to access the social toolkit using an unsupported browser. Only the following Browser's are supported: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later FireFox 1.0 or later (same as netscape 5.0 or later) Mac Platform Safari 3.0 or later Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Simply try to access http//:theyallmustgo.com from my laptop using Ubuntu 9.10 and Fire Fox 3.6 (Namaroka) 2. 3. Actual Results: See above verbatum error Expected Results: Should be able to log into wordpress web site Provide identifier acceptable to wordpress for a supported Browser I have tried many ways to remove Namaorota without success. if this continues I will have to use another Browser
This is a bug in the page (wrong UA detection) and not in Firefox. They incorrectly sniff for Firefox instead of Gecko. Please point the webmaster of that oage to http://geckoisgecko.org/
Assignee: nobody → english-other
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: General → English Other
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Firefox → Tech Evangelism
QA Contact: general → english-other
Where the heck are they assuming that anything in Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en; rv:1.9.0.18pre) Gecko/2010012100 Camino/2.1a1pre is equivalent to "Mozilla 1.0.9" (which AFAIK never existed...oh, duh, never mind... :-p)? Brilliant.
Blocks: geckoisgecko
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: x86 → All
Summary: Wordpress was upgraded to 2.92 simultaneoulsy with a Ubuntu 9.10 upgrade of Firefox-3.5 to Namoroka, upon attmept to reach www.theyallmustgo.com I get an error stating the Browser is unrecognized or outdated → theyallmustgo.com -- sniffs for "Firefox", tells other Gecko browsers they are "unsupported" or "incompatible"
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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