Open Bug 1915131 Opened 6 months ago Updated 19 days ago

userstyles.org - The page fails to load with a 504 error being displayed

Categories

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect, P2)

Firefox 129
Desktop
Windows 10

Tracking

(Webcompat Priority:P1, firefox129 affected, firefox131 affected)

Webcompat Priority P1
Tracking Status
firefox129 --- affected
firefox131 --- affected

People

(Reporter: rbucata, Unassigned)

References

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Details

(Keywords: webcompat:needs-contact, webcompat:needs-sitepatch, webcompat:site-report, Whiteboard: [webcompat-source:product])

User Story

platform:windows,mac,linux,android
impact:site-broken
configuration:general
affects:all
branch:release

Environment:
Operating system: Windows 10
Firefox version: Firefox 129.0.2 (release)

Preconditions:

  • Clean profile

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Navigate to: https://userstyles.org
  2. Observe

Expected Behavior:
The page loads

Actual Behavior:
The page fails to load with a 504 error message being displayed

Notes:

  • Reproducible on the latest Firefox Release and Nightly
  • Reproducible regardless of the ETP setting
  • Works as expected using Chrome

Created from webcompat-user-report:92ec39af-4ce5-4028-acfc-1d58408b7e19

UA spoofing (Set general.useragent.override to Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36) seems to fix the issue.

Severity: -- → S2
User Story: (updated)
Priority: -- → P2
See Also: → 1925260

This is a homepage for an old addon, Stylish, which requires that addon to be installed to be of any use. We could still ship an intervention here, but it will need to also update the site's button to download their extension, to take the user to AMO rather than the chrome web store. In addition, while that might not be a big deal, looking at the addon's reviews and general reputation, I don't know whether it even works on Firefox anymore, even if we spoof. There are also concerns that it's a copy of another addon that is spyware. Given this, I'm not sure whether we want to even try shipping an intervention at all.

Just for Info...

userstyles.org loads fine with Chrome but is slow and often times out with Firefox. I tested by changing the Firefox's user-agent to Chrome and the site loaded quickly which might suggest that the slowness is intentional.
There are other issues with the site which might suggest that the site is not maintained.

Webcompat Priority: --- → P1
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