Closed Bug 531331 Opened 15 years ago Closed 10 years ago

costco.com - Store Locator doesn't work if UA string doesn't contain "Firefox"

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: geeknik, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091126 Minefield/3.7a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091126 Minefield/3.7a1pre

It's a browser sniffing issue. It affects any Gecko based browser that doesn't have the word 'Firefox' in the UA string.

Reproducible: Always
Assignee: nobody → english-us
Component: General → English US
Product: Firefox → Tech Evangelism
QA Contact: general → english-us
Version: Trunk → unspecified
Blocks: geckoisgecko
Summary: Costco Store Locator doesn't work if UA string doesn't contain Firefox. → costco.com - Store Locator doesn't work if UA string doesn't contain "Firefox"
The UA string has been updated in Minefield to include Firefox now, but the store locator is still not working. I'm guessing we'll need to file a new bug? I'm not seeing anything in the Error Console, but when I click on the GO button (javascript), absolutely nothing happens.
Well, this bug still exists as filed. That is, in browsers that lack "Firefox" in the UA string, the store locator is broken.

It's entirely possible they're now sniffing specifically for certain Firefox UAs and rejecting everything else (which IMO is even worse than the original bug). But I don't see much point in filing a second bug when this one is still clearly a problem and so far no one has accomplished anything :-p
I've emailed Costco twice. Never gotten a response. I assume they aren't interested in fixing it. Maybe someone with an @mozilla email address will get better results.
Bob, can you help out here?
I get

Error: currentMode is null
Source File: http://ecn.dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6.2&mkt=en-us
Line: 1

which is in the MapPoint code which is littered with Firefox ua stuff. I don't see a separate bug on any virtualearth url I do see several for MapPoint though:

bug 315892, bug 318971, bug 569279

Joe, can you help us out here?
ISTR there was another bug a while back about Virtualearth that was recently (within the past eight months) fixed, though it may have also been a sneaky one like this, with embedded Virtualearth code.

I won't have time to go digging for it until at least Sunday afternoon, though.

cl
Site works now.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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