265473 - Lists default to Firefox Extensions when Thunderbird or Mozilla are selected

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[Andrew Haw]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

The update.mozilla.org site now seems to be all messed up (it DID work) if you
try to view the lists of Thunderbird or Mozilla extensions/themes it defaults to
the Firefox ones. Also if you select to view the list of Firefox extensions by
'most recent' order... its shows the list, but if you try to go to page 2, it
takes you to the alphabetical order list. I know it is still in beta but someone
has made changes that have only messed it all up! It has been like this for a
couple of days now...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to http://update.mozilla.org/?application=thunderbird
2. Click on 'Browse Themes'
3. Voila! you are at the Firefox themes page!
Actual Results:  
whatever option you select, it always takes you to Firefox themes/extensions

Expected Results:  
If you select to view Thunderbird themes, you should be able to view Thunderbird
themes. If you select to view lists of Mozilla extensions, then that is what you
should see.

this has only changed in the last couple of days, previously it workes correctly.

Comment 1

[Wolf [:wolf]]

*** Bug 265450 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Wolf [:wolf]]

The update site requires cookies to be enabled for both App-selection and list
selection perisistance. Its by no means ideal (I personally hate it more and
more, and I wrote the code to make it work like that. heh), but it can make bugs
like this one appear if you've blocked the sesssion cookie.
There's been no changes to the website in the last few days that'd affect the
site like this.

Have any more info for me to help me reproduce the issue?

WFM. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913
Firefox/0.10.1

Comment 3

[Andrew Haw]

the update.mozilla.org cookie was indeed blocked. I unblocked the cookie and the
site performs normally. May I suggest some kind of message in a similar way to
the one that appears when logging in to Ebay with cookies blocked. 'This site
requires cookies to be enabled' etc.