430020 - ford.fr - bogus useragent sniffing

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: French, defect)

Description

[suresh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; F-6.0SP2-20041109; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5

The URL www.ford.fr does not work in the firefox 3 beta 5. But in earlier versions it was working fine

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open the browser Firefox 3 Beta 5 in windows xp
2.type the URL www.ford.fr
3.you will receive an incompleted page
Actual Results:  
The displayed page is distorted and is not displaying correctly 

Expected Results:  
The page should display properly without any distortion..No flash movies getting displayed

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Attachment: Screenshot from 3b5

This looks fine for me.
Do you tried it in the firefox safemode ?
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode

Comment 2

[suresh]

Attachment: Screen shot of problem

Pls see the attached screen shot

Comment 3

[suresh]

The attached screen shot gives you a snap shot of the problem... one thing i have noticed is that after typing in the url as www.ford.fr , it transforms the url as http://www.ford.fr/undefined/undefined/undefined/rt_home/newhome_hp1_trafic_0401/-/-/-

I have tried it in both normal as well as safe mode. But having the same problem..I have even uninstalled my previous version of firefox 2 and tried this one :(

Let me know ,if you need any specific info regarding configuration of my PC...

Comment 4

[Matthew Kairys]

I get the same problem as seen on the screenshot on the current nightly using a fresh install. Disabling Javascript for the page seems to fix the problem so might be a script that they're using on the page.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008042106 Minefield/3.0pre

Comment 5

[suresh]

Hi Kairys,

Thanks for the update..it seems to be working fine when javascript is disabled.Do you think this is something to do with firefox browser or the way firefox handles the javascript?

Let me know your thoughts on the same?

Comment 6

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

It works in Firefox 2008042204 on Linux if I fake the user agent string
to that of Firefox 2.0.0.14

From the page source:

	if(useragent.indexOf('Firefox') > -1)		bName = 'Netscape';
	else if(useragent.indexOf('Netscape') > -1) bName = 'Netscape';
	else if(useragent.indexOf('Safari') > -1)	bName = 'Safari';
	else if(useragent.indexOf('Opera') > -1)	bName = 'Opera';
        else                                       bName = navigator.appName;

They should probably be looking for "Gecko" instead of "Firefox".

-> Evangelism

Comment 7

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Yep, definitely. This sort of sniffing won't work for any Gecko browser not named "Firefox"

Comment 8

[sjw]

They redesigned the page.
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