282703 - netscape.com - users are redirected and asked to upgrade to the latest version of their browser

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Ernst]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When going on this page:
http://netcenter.netscape.com/netcenter/
using Firefox on linux you are redirected to 
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp

And you get an ugly javascript alert telling you to upgrade your browser to the
latest version.

This site is the new "redesigned site" for the new Netscape browser and people
who made this site to promote a browser based on firefox should be really
ashamed to have written such a poor javascript browser sniffer that completly
ignore linux and other browsers. The javascript is here:
http://netcenter.static.netscape.com/netcenter/i/jump.js
(not to mention that the whole website is in flash)

You can find other people's comment about this bug here:
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=6089#5



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go here: http://netcenter.netscape.com/netcenter/
Actual Results:  
tells me to upgrade my browser and redirect me on another page.

Expected Results:  
show me the flash website promoting Netscape 8.

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

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.

Same thing happens on OS/2 trunk. -> OS=all

After dismissing the alert, I'm left on the 7.2 download page.

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

Even NS 7.2 on WinNT4 is redirected, see script.

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Looks like it's working in both Camino-trunk and Firefox 2. Fixed?

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

yes