1350685 - Firefox Reader Starts At Wrong Point

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Reader Mode, defect)

Description

[imthepipe]

Attachment: Reader-Bug.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Build ID: 20170316213829

Steps to reproduce:

Navigated to article at the following address:
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a49791/russian-dnc-emails-hacked/

Clicked the Reader icon in Firefox address bar


Actual results:

Instead of starting at the beginning of the article, Reader began near the end - omitting a significant portion of the article text.


Expected results:

Reader text should begin at the start of the article.

Comment 1

[imthepipe]

This problem has also occurred on many other sites.

Comment 2

[imthepipe]

Tried running Firefox in safe mode, but the problem persists.

Comment 3

[imthepipe]

So no fix in non-beta x64 release?

Comment 4

[YF (Yang)]

(In reply to imthepipe from comment #3)
> So no fix in non-beta x64 release?

I see this problem on Fx52 x86. It may have been fixed since Fx53.

Comment 5

[Julien Cristau [:jcristau]]

Mass wontfix for bugs affecting firefox 52.

Comment 6

[:Gijs (he/him)]

This is fixed on more recent versions of Firefox. We won't backport this to 52. Resolving wfm as updated builds have been fixed.