Closed Bug 303495 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Extension updates blocked for Debian users!

Categories

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Product:
addons.mozilla.org Graveyard
Component:
Public Pages
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: nick, Assigned: Bugzilla-alanjstrBugs)

References

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Details

Debian users are blocked from using extension updates!

This is because the server tries to deduce Firefox's version from the user-agent
string. I'm getting: "You must upgrade to version 1.0.4 or newer of Firefox
before accessing the Mozilla Update web service.". My browser's UA string is
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Firefox/1.0
StumbleUpon/1.999 (Debian package 1.0.6-1)".
This isn't our fault or Debian's, it's the StumbleUpon extension's fault. 
StumbleUpon reset the version number portion of your UserAgent when you
installed it the first time, and because it's showing as "user set" the upgrades
are refusing to touch it.

1) type "about:config" in your URL bar
2) in the filter box type "vendorSub"
3) You should see a preference named "general.userAgent.vendorSub"
4) right-click on it and choose Reset
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Product: addons.mozilla.org → addons.mozilla.org Graveyard
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