378644 - maps.google.com - arrow to expand google map, smooth zooming etc. is missing in non-Firefox UAs like Minefield

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a4pre) Gecko/20070424 Minefield/3.0a4pre ID:2007042409 [cairo]

repro:
open ulr

expected: 
just left of the map that has opened there should be a little arrow to expand the map over the full width of the page.

the arrow is visible with a branch build but not on trunk.

Comment 1

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

Google unfortunately does silly UA sniffing which prevents most (if not all iirc) of our Minefield-branded builds from enjoying features such as this, smooth mouse wheel/double-click zoom, SVG lines and others. Changing your UA to that of a 2.x build will magically make these features reappear :/

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This actually works in Camino now (branch and trunk); folks using other Gecko browsers with non-Firefox UAs should check and see if this works for them before closing this.

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070615 Minefield/3.0a6pre ID:2007061512

Doesn't work

Comment 4

[Peter Kasting]

Steffen Wilberg: Don't EVER mass-CC 70 random "@google.com" emails because you don't know whom to address bugs to.  We don't like getting spam more than you do.

Comment 5

[u88484]

looks the same to me in Minefield and IE.  Changing user agent to Firefox and the page looks the same in Minefield and IE. Resolved WFM?

Comment 6

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> looks the same to me in Minefield and IE.  Changing user agent to Firefox and
> the page looks the same in Minefield and IE. Resolved WFM?
> 
No it doesn't look the same in Minefield and FF/IE/Opera.
e.g. the sidebar can't be collapsed

Comment 7

[u88484]

Attachment: Screenshot of arrow to expand map (close sidebar)

Ahhh I finally seen what you was talking about Peter.

Comment 8

[Roger Lynn]

I get the same problem in SeaMonkey.

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9"

(It also doesn't work in IceWeasel or IceApe, but you might not care about that.)

Comment 9

[pal-moz]

Attachment: screenshot

fixed ?

"<<" arrow on top-left of map.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/20080814041610 Minefield/3.1a2pre

Comment 10

[u88484]

Yep, they are doing it different for Firefox than IE now.  But at least there is a way to do it now.

Comment 11

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Someone should test this in Camino and/or Seamonkey as well.

Comment 12

[Sander]

Verified that this now works in SeaMonkey (Linux, 1.1.x) as well. (About time!)