481352 - Firefox 3.1b2 incompatible with Hotmail

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Mumia W.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011912 Firefox/3.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2

The release notes for Firefox 3.1b2 <http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.1b2/releasenotes/> should mention that 3.1b2 is not compatible with Hotmail. This is the number one complaint in the mozilla.feedback.firefox.prerelease newsgroup. Hotmail users need to be warned not to upgrade.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.1b2/releasenotes/
2. Look for a warning about hotmail.com
3. 
Actual Results:  
No warning about Firefox's (3.1b2) incompatibility with hotmail.com will be found.

Expected Results:  
A warning that 3.1b2 is incompatible with hotmail.com was expected.

The release notes should say that 3.1b2 is incompatible with hotmail.com and Hotmail users should probably not upgrade.

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

FWIW, this was fixed in bug 462428 for 3.1b3, which isn't that far away.

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

We should've done this for beta 2 when it was released, but we didn't. I don't think we need to add it now because beta 3 is right around the corner. Marking as WONTFIX.