419484 - facebook.com doesn't increment picture numbers in albums for non-Firefox UAs

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Robbie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070228 Camino/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070228 Camino/1.0.4

Camino does not properly display the picture number when going through Facebook picture albums. This problem does not occur with Firefox. 
Example: Picture (1/250) will stay (1/250) instead of going (1...2...3/250)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to Facebook picture album
2.Advance to next picture
3.

Comment 1

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

This works fine for me on a recent 1.6b3pre nightly.

Note that 1.0.4 is over a year out-of-date and almost two major versions behind at this point; you should upgrade at least to the latest stable release, 1.5.5: http://caminobrowser.org/releases/1.5.5/

Comment 2

[Stuart Morgan]

WFM in a 1.6 nightly as well.

Robbie, if you can reproduce this in a recent version of Camino, feel free to re-open and we'll investigate further.

Comment 3

[Robbie]

I've updated to Version 2008020612 (1.5.5) and still have the same problem.

Comment 4

[Stuart Morgan]

Ah, this is a sniffing bug on their end, which is why I didn't see it in 1.6. It works correctly when the UA contains "Firefox", and doesn't otherwise. Re-opening and sending to TE.

Robbie, please complain to Facebook that they need to target Gecko, not Firefox.

Comment 5

[Damian Shaw [Quan]]

This is currently affecting Firefox 3.0 pre-b5

Comment 6

[Damian Shaw [Quan]]

I've seen this affect all OS'

Comment 7

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Damian: just for future reference, the vast majority of TE bugs are indeed present on all platforms and all OS versions. :)

Comment 9

[Kai Liu]

The reporter of bug 424831 filed a bug with Facebook, but he didn't get a response.  <http://bugs.developers.facebook.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1868>

Reed, didn't you say that you have contacts at Facebook?

Comment 10

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

(In reply to comment #9)
> Reed, didn't you say that you have contacts at Facebook?

Yep, and I passed this on to him. He filed an internal bug for it.

Comment 11

[John]

This has been resolved on Facebook's side. Someone please mark this as worksforme

Comment 12

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Facebook has certainly changed a lot in how albums work, so I'm not even sure this bug would still exist, but I certainly can't reproduce it at this point in Camino with the "like Firefox" portion of the UA removed.

Other sniffing bugs in Facebook are still present, so I think it's safe to mark this FIXED. Reed, tell your contact thanks.