529533 - Some features of Yahoo webmail are missing when using Firefox 3.6b3 user agent string

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Fernando Hartmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2b3) Gecko/20091115 Firefox/3.6b3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2b3) Gecko/20091115 Firefox/3.6b3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

In FF 3.6 b3 some Yahoo webmail (old style interface) don't are showed, one sample is the "Loading..."  message that appears every time You ask for open a email, in FF 3.5 it is there but with FF 3.6 the message is missing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Yahoo webmail 
2.Ask for open a mail
3.See "Loading..." message is missing
Actual Results:  
Message is missing

Expected Results:  
Show the message

Comment 1

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Could just be browser detection problems?

Try setting general.useragent.extra.firefox to Firefox/3.5 (in about:config) and see if it works?

I can't block on this until I get a confirmation, but Yahoo! Mail not working is serious so I'll leave it as a nomination for now.

Juan: can we get some QA love?

Comment 2

[Fernando Hartmann]

You are right, I tried the "useragent" set to Firefox/3.5 and now all Yahoo! features are working. 
So it's not a FF problem.

Comment 3

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

--> Tech Evangelism

Comment 4

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Fernando: what happens when you set it to Firefox/3.6 (instead of Firefox/3.6b3)?

Comment 5

[Fernando Hartmann]

I tried Firefox/3.6 and the features are messing too. They only work with Firefox/3.5

Comment 6

[Kev Needham [:kev]]

Sent email to Y! Mail product team to make sure they're aware.

Comment 7

[Fernando Hartmann]

Today I realized that the missing features are back, I'm using:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100105 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

All functionalities are ok now.
I think this bug can be closed.

Comment 8

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Was this an issue of Yahoo not allowing a beta version of Firefox (and thus it's likely to still exist with a UA string that includes something like "Firefox/3.7b1"), or was it something else?

I'm *very* hesitant to mark this FIXED when the only test has been done with a release version of Firefox 3.6.

Comment 9

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

No more an issue. Yahoo Mail has changed a couple of times since that release.