405914 - (some)? windows users aren't offered a download for firefox or thunderbird

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Jeremy Baron]

I pointed a Windows user in #thunderbird at the thunderbird page.  His response:
> They need to rethink the design, I think sometimes
> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/ <- No download button

His help -> about box said:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9

I tested by setting a UA at general.useragent.override for the string above and the following one using the fx3.0b1 release on OS X:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b1) Gecko/2007110904 Firefox/3.0b1

Both yield a page with no download button that just says the product is unavailable for Mac OS 9.

I also tested
* http://www.mozillaonline.com/ : localized message that mentioned Mac OS 9
* http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/ : offers 3 download links and no button.  That page yields 1 button and no links when I visit with my mac UA string.

Comment 1

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Give me the output of javascript:navigator.platform and javascript:navigator.userAgent for users seeing this problem, please.

Comment 2

[Jeremy Baron]

For me:
javascript:uneval({"navigator.platform":%20navigator.platform,%20"navigator.userAgent":%20navigator.userAgent%20})
({'navigator.platform':"MacIntel", 'navigator.userAgent':"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9"})
for me

And for Mook (who does see a button) on his own msvc+wine build running on win32:
({'navigator.platform':"Win32", 'navigator.userAgent':"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; ; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007111820 IceWeasel/3.0b2pre"})

Comment 3

[Jeremy Baron]

The windows user that pointed this out to me now says they see the button and the problem was a program called proxomitron.  Googling around, that's a filtering proxy that runs on the end user's machine and one feature is scrubbing scripts.

-> INVALID

Comment 4

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified; thanks for reporting back, Jeremy.