270968 - powergen.co.uk - Site detects browser version as Netscape 1.0, recommends IE 5+ or Netscape 7.02+

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 234836

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Chris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I can't be sure whether I was already on the Powergen site, and this happened
when I followed a link, or whether it happened on my first approach from Google.

Refresh doesn't clear it now - reloading a new instance of FFox gives me the
message every time now.

See the attached screen shot.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.type http://www.powergen.co.uk

Actual Results:  
See the screen shot.

Expected Results:  
Told me how sensible I am for using a nice secure browser, welcomed me in and
offered me a discount on my bill.

Powergen belongs to E-on.  I have emailed the best E-on contact I can find
saying their site is not Firefox Friendly.  
For backwards compatibility with security sensitive sites FFox should try to
evade such mis-categorisation.

Comment 1

[Chris]

Attachment: Screenshot showing detected version

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

Bad Javascript browser sniffer used. --> Tech Evangelism

Comment 3

[Felix Miata]

Conforming summary to TFM item 10 at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new

Comment 4

[Bruce Davidson]

This is a dupe of bug 234836. But hey, a few more e-mails to Powergen can't hurt!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 234836 ***