410394 - yahoo.co.jp - redirects all non-"Firefox 2.0" (exact match) Gecko browsers to a downgraded page

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Japanese, defect)

Description

[philippe (part-time)]

Redirects all Gecko browsers that are not Firefox 2.0 (exact match [*]) to a more minimal page.
Since 2008.1.1, when they 'upgraded' the front page to something similar to yahoo.com.

[*] That includes Camino 1.5, Camino-with-Firefox-in-the-UA-string (1.6a 2.0a), Minefield, Bonecho, SeaMonkey.

Comment 1

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

See also bug 410430.

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

(I should say, these bugs are separate. yahoo.com still works fine with 2007 browsers including Camino 1.5.4.)

Comment 3

[Kev Needham [:kev]]

Adding Kohei to this thread, as he and Gen work regularly with the folks at yahoo.jp on Firefox builds we create for them.

Comment 4

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

Note that yahoo.co.jp and yahoo.com are not same company.

I think that similar issue is occurred in some sites. I think that we need to evangelize that "Gecko" should be checked in UA string, not "Firefox".

Comment 5

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

No, "Gecko/" should be checked (Safari sucks).
Here is a good document for appropriate browser detection.
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Browser_Detection_and_Cross_Browser_Support

Comment 6

[philippe (part-time)]

Well, as of 4 minutes ago (Jan 4, 13:40, Japan time), we were able to access the full page, no apparent redirect anymore.
When my partner checked Yahoo.co.jp today around 10:00 Japan Time, that was not yet the case.
Tested with Camino 1.5.4, Camino 2.0a1pre trunk build and Minefield trunk.

Leaving this bug open, to make sure it was not a temporary error :-).

Comment 7

[baffclan]

cannot reproduce with SeaMonkey/2008010203-trunk/WinXP, 
Firefox/2008010304-trunk/WinXP, too.

Comment 8

[Hideo Oshima]

Works for me too with trunk/linux.
Marking WFM.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008020120 

Comment 9

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

FIXED, actually, since this is a TE bug.

Comment 10

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Yep, this appears to be FIXED, v. with Camino's latest trunk (with and without the "like Firefox" bit in its UA string).