304525 - moreinfo.php "Add Your Own Opinion" links lack vid and trap user in "Incompatible Theme" page

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

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

Description

[Nate Willis]

User-Agent:       Opera/8.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
Build Identifier: 

In the URL supplied & every other theme page I've tried recently, the "add your
own opinion" link right before the user comments does not bring up a comment
form.  Instead it brings up an error page reading:

"Incompatible Theme or Theme No Longer Available
The theme you requested is either incompatible with the application selected, or
the version of it is no longer available on Mozilla Update.

To try your request again for a different application version, use the form below.
Firefox"
 -- then a selection box and a "Go" button.

This seems to be due to a problem with the link itself; the URL is
https://addons.mozilla.org/themes/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=1086&page=opinion

On a hunch I inserted a &vid=5055 parameter (since that was the vid on the
parent page) and it works correctly:
https://addons.mozilla.org/themes/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=1086&page=opinion&vid=5055

It should be noted; this appears to me to only be on themes not extensions. 
Also, the "Incompatible Theme" error page is a quicksand trap, no matter what
you choose from the selection box the result is the same "Incompatible Theme"
page -- because it fails to insert the missing vid parameter.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Nate Willis]

Should have supplied parent page URL; the one in the example that produces the
malformed link is: https://addons.mozilla.org/themes/moreinfo.php?id=1086&vid=5055

Comment 2

[alanjstr]

Comments are tied to the theme, not the specific version (fortunately or
unfortunately).  But it sounds like you ran into our wonderful "browser detection"