258559 - Browser ident spoof to IE causes Java plug in hang on startup

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 83376

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Craig Cockburn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817

I used the prefbar plug in to define a custom IE browser ident string:

user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.2 (compatible; MSIE 6.0;
Windows NT 5.1; Q312461; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"); 
(Yes, I know there's no such version as 5.2!)

However, when restarting Mozilla, it hangs due to attempting to load the java
plug in for IE. An end task is necessary. Screen dump attached.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Edit string above
2. Start browser
3.

Comment 1

[Craig Cockburn]

Attachment: Screen dump showing startup hang

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

This has been in the release notes for a long time now.  Please read them before
filing a bug.

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.7/known-issues.html#java

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83376 ***