Closed Bug 303156 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

spaces.msn.com - weblog posting form doesn't work if UA string includes "Firefox"

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

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

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: shatter00, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050720 Firefox/1.0+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050720 Firefox/1.0+ While logged in to my msn space. And trying to add a blog entry. firefox won't let you write in the msg field. ""<HTML><BODY><BR>"" shows on the first line an cannot be deleted or written over. Nor can you type a letter at all. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Log into msn space via http://spaces.msn.com/ 2.hit " edit page " 3.Hit " add entry" under the blog option. Actual Results: it sends you to blog entry form an code shows through on the msg area an wont' let u write. Expected Results: Should let you write out the blog an save. As normal.
I can confirm this, but I'm not about to try to figure out what's causing it.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: qawanted
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: Cannot write a blog entry. → Cannot enter text into MSN Spaces blog entry editor
Version: unspecified → Trunk
*** Bug 314326 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Sigh. Any time they want to stop doing over-broad browser detection and then hacks for specific versions of browsers would be fine by me. It works just fine in SeaMonkey1.1a... unless you change the pref for general.useragent.extra.seamonkey to something which includes the string "Firefox". It fails in recent Firefoxes... unless you change the pref for general.useragent.extra.firefox to something which does not include the string "Firefox".
Assignee: nobody → english-us
Component: General → English US
Keywords: qawanted
Product: Firefox → Tech Evangelism
QA Contact: general → english-us
Version: Trunk → unspecified
Taking; I emailed a couple of people I know who work on Spaces.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Summary: Cannot enter text into MSN Spaces blog entry editor → spaces.msn.com - weblog posting form doesn't work if UA string includes "Firefox"
(In reply to comment #4) > Taking; I emailed a couple of people I know who work on Spaces. > Thx... Strangly, I noticed that when I interrupt the loading of the editing page, the textaera stay accessible, and I finally posted with success... But when I just let it laod normally, the problem remains...
No wonder I couldn't find this: I didn't take it, just assigned it to the default owner. Sigh. And my guess at the cause was completely wrong: it was tripping over a long ago trunk-only fix to treat a missing first parameter to document.open, that's supposed to be a mime-type, as text/plain rather than text/html. Anyway, it's now -> FIXED.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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