Open Bug 1711960 Opened 4 years ago Updated 1 year ago

Can't connect to accounts.firefox.com in SeaMonkey 2.53.7.1

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Web Compatibility, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
Web Compatibility
Version:
SeaMonkey 2.53
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: xander, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.7.1

Steps to reproduce:

Go to https://accounts.firefox.com with the intention of signing up for Mozilla VPN.

Actual results:

Page never finishes loading.

Expected results:

Page should load.

Guess I'm going with a different VPN provider.

They do bad user agent sniffing and check for a version > 56. Not sure what breaks then server side but the query never finishes.

For a work-around, add to about:config the prefs:

pref("general.useragent.override.thunderbird.net", "Firefox/.*#SeaMonkey/2.53");
pref("general.useragent.override.firefox.com", "Firefox/.*#SeaMonkey/2.53");

(The site-specific overrides support "pattern#replacement" syntax).

Ie. despites what defaults you have in UA string, does not mention Firefox in any way for these sites, because such a mentioning confuses them a lot.

Component: General → Web Compatibility
Version: SeaMonkey 2.53 Branch → SeaMonkey 2.53
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