326421 - Installer for wrong OS is frequently offered for native extensions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 325502

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

Description

[Reşat SABIQ (Reshat)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Most of the time, when a user accesses the following link to my extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&category=Image%20Browsing&numpg=10&id=790
the user gets the wrong OS installer. E.g., i'm on Windows, most of the time i get the Linux installer from this URL, and if i'm on Linux i get the Windows installer.

This has been going on for at least a month, and i even added some text to my extension description to help English-speaking users find the right installer:
Note: there is a bug in addons web site code that offers you a Linux installer for Windows. Please go to all previous releases link on the bottom to access the Windows installer.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Access https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&category=Image%20Browsing&numpg=10&id=790
2. If you get the right OS, wait a few hours, and access it again.
3.

Actual Results:  
Wrong installer offered.

Expected Results:  
Installer for user's OS is offered.

This appears to confuse a lot of users.

Comment 1

[alanjstr]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 325502 ***

Comment 2

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

AMO BUGSPAM FOR COMPONENT MOVE AND DELETE (FILTER ME)

Comment 3

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

AMO BUGSPAM FOR QACONTACT FIX (FILTER ME)