1301587 - general.userangent.site_specific_overrides set to false is not working

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Steps to Reproduce

1. With Firefox 48 on Android 
2. Go to about:config?filter=general.userangent.site_specific_overrides
3. Set it to false
4. Go to one of the domain names in 
   https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/app/ua-update.json.in For example, www.yahoo.co.jp or lohaco.jp

Expected:
Get the desktop site

Actual:
Get the mobile site. User-Agent override is still in place.

Reproducible:
Tested with etsai on a different device. 
Tested on Desktop with a Firefox 48 Android user-agent and got the desktop sites.

Comment 1

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

(In the future can you not assign me to Fennec bugs, until we know what the issue is and who the best person would be to fix?)

The pref you're looking for is general.useragent.updates.enabled (not site_specific_overrides).

https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/protocol/http/UserAgentUpdates.jsm#51-52

Comment 2

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Oops, didn't mean to set needinfo.