328256 - yahoo.com - Yahoo mail's UA sniffing is too strict

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 318665

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[sonya_calooy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915

When I use Firefox version 1.5.0.1, I no longer see the "color and graphics" toolbar in the compose mail window.  It is supposed to load above the text window, but does not. The same thing happens in Mozilla version 1.7.12. When I used a previous Firefox version (1.0.7) it did load and yahoo the compose mail window worked just fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.login to mail.yahoo.com
2.click on "compose"
3.the html "graphicsa and color" toolbar is supposed to load above the text box.

Actual Results:  
1.login to mail.yahoo.com
2.click on "compose"
3.the html "graphics and color" toolbar does not load above the message text box in Firefox version 1.5.0.1. (It does load in the older version 1.0.7)

Expected Results:  
In my mail prefernces, I have selected to compose mail in html. I expect to see the html "graphics and color" toolbar to appear above the message text box. Instead, my message can only be composed in plain text: no html toolbar.

This is similar to bug #305957, but my platform is Mac OSX instead of PC.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

WFM - Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

As I recall yahoo needed to update thier code to work with Firefox 1.5.

Comment 2

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

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

UA sniffing appears to be broken in many ways. Moving to TE.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Doesn't work for me, with trunk or 1.5.0.1 Mac, until I use the UA Switcher extension to tell them I'm using something older, or Windowsier, when I get a perfectly working toolbar.

Comment 4

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Assigning to default assignee/qacontact.

Comment 5

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

The bad UA sniffing here also includes Camino, in which rich text is broken with default UA, but works spoofing as Fx.