296813 - plugins or browserversion not detected leading to being banned from macromedia and nytimes media pages

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Camino Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Thilo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050427 Camino/0.8.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050427 Camino/0.8.4

macromedia.com states that I am lacking a (flash)plugin and redirects me to
noflash.html
nytimes.com does not allow me to watch vids because my system would not be
compatible, even though I have all players installed and the work usually.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. on macromedia I folllow their ad-link to one of their products
2. in nytimes I just want to watch multimedia 
Actual Results:  
 the NYT-popup does not allow me to see any multimedia vids even though I have
all players.
Macromedia does nto grant me access to their webshop.

Expected Results:  
being detected as an up to date system and being allowed to watch multimedia.

Maybe it is not a plugin problem, but a problem of their browser detection,
meaning that they probably can't handle camino as a browser name and assume that
this browser is from outer space and not compatible.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

WFM in both 0.8.4 and 20050619 (0.9a1)

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Reporter, does this problem still occur for you in 0.9a1 or a recent nightly build?

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

If this problem still occurs for you in a recent nightly build, reopen this bug.
 Closing WFM.