454828 - search.labs.familysearch.org -- Web Site Sniffs for "Firefox" Instead of "Gecko"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[David E. Ross]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 SeaMonkey/1.1.11, NOT Firefox/2.0.0.16
Build Identifier: 

At the indicated URL, using SeaMonkey results in a warning that an unsupported browser is being used.  Necessary navigation items are then missing from the pages resulting from a search.  

Spoofing Firefox with the UA string below resolves this problem, thus proving invalid sniffing.  
  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) 
    Gecko/20080702 SeaMonkey/1.1.11, NOT Firefox/2.0.0.16

Reproducible: Always




See <news://news.mozilla.org:119/mozilla.support.seamonkey>, thread with subject "Flash problem" started 9/11/2008 8:31 AM PDT.

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Confirmed using Camino trunk without "like Firefox" in the UA string. David, have you contacted the site?

Comment 2

[David E. Ross]

I just now sent a message to the site using their Web-form.  This was delayed because navigation to the form does not work unless I spoof Firefox.

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.

Comment 4

[David E. Ross]

It now appears to work.