Closed Bug 265889 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

comcast.com - Website won't allow Firefox on linux

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Product:
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
Component:
English US
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 128563

People

(Reporter: bugs, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041005 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041005 Firefox/0.10.1

Comcast has started to reject browsers by their user agent strings.  The online
billpayment section of the website give the error 

"Your browser or browser version is not supported on this website. To
successfully utilize this website, please upgrade your browser or browser version."

But if I change the useragent to 

"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"

I am let right in, with no problems


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log into comcast.com
2. go to "View my bill"  section
3. see error message
Assignee: english-other → english-us
Component: English Other → English US
QA Contact: english-other → english-us
Conforming summary to TFM item 10 at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new

Reporter, when you file a TE bug, please follow the reporting guidelines.
Summary: Website won't allow Firefox on linux → comcast.com - Website won't allow Firefox on linux
Appears to be a dupe of bug 128563.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 128563 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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