1153588 - Plugin check service stopped working for SeaMonkey

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Plugin Check Graveyard :: UI, defect)

Description

[Philip Chee]

(From Bug 1153573 comment #0)
> From Tools > Add-ons Manager > Plugins, the link to "Check to see if your
> plugins are up to date" opens https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
> That page says "Currently the plugin check service is only available to
> Firefox users".
> 
> Probably related to bug 1121456, restricting plugin check to Firefox. The
> alternative browsers mentioned there were IE and Chrome, so it's not clear
> whether it was intended to block SeaMonkey, or just non-Mozilla browers.
> 
> In any case, either the plugin check needs to work with SeaMonkey, or
> SeaMonkey should stop trying to use the plugin check.

SeaMonkey is a mozilla based browser and has the same plugin architecture as Firefox. Hence there is no reason to block SeaMonkey.

If I change the navigator.userAgent from:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0 SeaMonkey/2.37a1
to
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0

The plugin check service works nicely with SeaMonkey. Please change your UA sniffing code to allow SeaMonkey to use the plugin check service.

Comment 1

[Pim Blokland]

The strange thing is that the Pale Moon browser does not get blocked. This browser has as a useragent string

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:25.3) Gecko/20150323 Firefox/31.9 PaleMoon/25.3.1

so I'm not sure it's only a simple useragent sniffing thing.

Comment 2

[Philip Chee]

It's working for me today:

UserAgent from header 	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0 SeaMonkey/2.37a1 Lightning/4.2a1
User Agent from JavaScript 	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0 SeaMonkey/2.37a1
Browser string 	Mozilla/Netscape 6.x
Operating System 	Microsoft Windows 7
Browser name 	Yes - version firefox
Browser version 	Yes - version 40

espressive must have fixed it. Thanks!

Comment 3

[Philip Chee]

Wait it's broken again. Sorry for the false hopes.

Comment 4

[Alice Wyman]

Yep, still broken.  To get PluginCheck working in SeaMonkey/2.33.1 I added a new general.useragent.override preference in about:config and set the UA string to
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0

Comment 5

[Schalk Neethling [:espressive]]

Attachment: Link to Github pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/2937

Comment 6

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/ff8fa44c4732e1708de6b962830205dd5ffa1692
Fix Bug 1153588, support SeaMonkey on plugin check

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/e16d9d1aad9ab84b4555af31b99148ddfd7d27d8
Merge pull request #2937 from schalkneethling/bug1153588-plugincheck-stopped-working-for-seamonkey

Fix Bug 1153588, support SeaMonkey on plugin check

Comment 7

[Philip Chee]

Yay! Thanks!