1162498 - Facebook's messenger.com doesn't allow to sign in on Firefox OS

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

Visiting messenger.com on Nightly allows me to log in and see my contacts and messages. It also lets me make video calls. Visiting it from my Flame running master I only get the links to download the app for smartphones.

The site doesn't seem to be using any plugins, so I don't see why it shouldn't work on Firefox OS, if the obvious user agent sniffing wasn't in place. Can we get them to change that?

Comment 1

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Hi Panos,

> Visiting messenger.com on Nightly

Just to be clear, it's working as expected on Firefox for Android (nightly)?

Comment 2

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

Sorry, I meant Nightly Desktop. I don't know if it works on Firefox for Android.

Comment 3

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

No problem, thanks for the clarification!

Comment 4

[Michael Ellis]

This is part of FB's strategy around the messenger service. The experience is consistent across Safari, Chrome, & Firefox browsers on mobile devices.  FB is directing users to DL the app, as opposed to serving an m.site.

We can close this bug, FB will not fix.