510189 - Improve advanced addon search to auto-detect user's browser, and allow sub-version specification

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Search, defect)

Description

[Joey Twiddle]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090809 Firefox/3.5.2 (Swiftfox)
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When I perform an Advanced search on the addons site, usually I want to look for addons which will work for my browser.

I have to select Platform: "Linux" and Version: "3.5 to 3.5"

But I still get results which say "This addons is for an earlier version of Firefox"!

This may be because I am using 3.5.2 and some addons are only compatible with 3.5.0 or 3.5.1.

Therefore I would like to be able to select sub-versions in the "version" drop-down.

Or even better, the Platform and Version inputs should default to "My Current Platform" and "My Current Version", if the user's platform and Firefox version were made available in the User-Agent header.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

This might already be fixed?

Comment 2

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

Fixed, but needs work.

Comment 3

[Joey Twiddle]

I have not found any version compatibility problems when searching today.  I have found a Platform incompatibility bug however.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=bear+blue&cat=2%2C0&advancedsearch=1&as=1&appid=1&lver=3.5&atype=0&pp=20&pid=2&sort=&lup=

Under 'Advanced' my platform is 'Linux', however one of the results is:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8612

which is clearly marked "not available for Linux"!