809517 - Port |Bug 792054 - Use the legacy User Agent string (containing Gecko/20100101) for some possibly-broken online banking sites|

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

FF bug 792054 activated the legacy User Agent string (like previously done for Moodle) for some possibly-broken online banking sites. The change landed on Aurora and Beta, too. I think non-working banking sites are bad, so let's follow suit(e), shall we?

Original changesets:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/fe3ddc3ce8e6
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/rev/33c470ea043e
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/cc85077c423b

Comment 1

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Attachment: patch [Checkin: Comments 3 and 4]

Unfortunately I don't think I can test this since I'm not a customer of any of these banks. :-/

Comment 2

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Comment on attachment 679237 [details] [diff] [review]
patch [Checkin: Comments 3 and 4]

[Approval Request Comment]
Bug caused by (feature/regressing bug #): bug 588909
User impact if declined: online banking may be broken on some banking sites until they fix their User Agent sniffing
Testing completed (on m-c, etc.): landed on m-c
Risk to taking this patch (and alternatives if risky): low risk
String or UUID changes made by this patch: none

Comment 3

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Comment on attachment 679237 [details] [diff] [review]
patch [Checkin: Comments 3 and 4]

http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/b835e68f8f8c

Comment 4

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Comment on attachment 679237 [details] [diff] [review]
patch [Checkin: Comments 3 and 4]

http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-aurora/rev/af40044655ae
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/de4387b45ac2

[If anyone wonders whether this will work on branches at all: Bug 786613 landed everywhere we want to land this. Unfortunately, 2.14b4 has already been tagged, so unless releng decides to respin, this will only be in 2.14b5.]