536900 - Recruiting friends or sending gifts in Mafia Wars not possible with Firefox 3.6

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 542185

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Attachment: Screenshot Firefox 3.6

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2b6pre) Gecko/20091222 Namoroka/3.6b6pre ID:20091222033648

Playing Mafia Wars on Facebook doesn't let you recruit friends or sent gifts to friends because the list of known fiends is not shown anymore in Firefox 3.6. See the attached screenshots.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Attachment: Screenshot Firefox 3.5

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Regressed between the builds 060803 and 060903.

PASS: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/4f11e242a00e
FAIL: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/39f1a74e500b

Checkins: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=4f11e242a00e&tochange=39f1a74e500b

This should be a clear regression from the tracemonkey merge on that day. Given that Mafia Wars is one of the mostly played games on Facebook asking for blocking 1.9.2.

I will run a hg bisect to narrow down the range to the causing changeset.

Comment 3

[Robert Sayre]

I don't think we should blc

Comment 4

[Robert Sayre]

er, we should block. It's broken in 3.6, I didn't see that at first.

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

The first bad revision is:
changeset:   29004:39f1a74e500b
user:        Henri Sivonen <[e-mail]>
date:        Tue Jun 09 10:41:19 2009 +0300
summary:     Bug 468708 - namespaceURI for HTML elements should be http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml (also make localName return in lower case) r=sicking, sr=peterv, a=beltzner

Looks like the game is using a localName in upper case when working with DOM elements to insert the table of friends. Given that we have a tech evangelism bug now?

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

We should at least have a tech evangelism bug, yes.  I don't think we want to back out bug 468708 if this is the only case it breaks...

Comment 7

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

I'm in contact with Zynga and have sent them a support request.

Comment 8

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

It's a known issue and will hopefully be fixed soon. I'll report back once I have more information.

Comment 9

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

Is this also possibly a dupe of bug 531662 which itself may be a dupe of bug 501312?

Comment 10

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

(In reply to comment #9)
> Is this also possibly a dupe of bug 531662 which itself may be a dupe of bug
> 501312?

I don't think so. Given the feedback from Zynga, they are aware of the problem and will fix it. So we should handle this bug separately.

Comment 11

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Latest answer from Zynga:

The problem you are experiencing is a known issue that we are working hard to resolve quickly! We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused and appreciate your understanding.


Being an avid gamer, I can understand how this would affect your game experience and we apologize for any inconvenience due to this. Your understanding and patience is much appreciated while we work to get this issue resolved at the earliest. The good news is that we know which players have been impacted and are testing a solution to get them back into the game as soon as possible.

Comment 12

[-fullmetaljacket-]

could it be bug 536941 is same with this bug? 

i will try the regression range on comment#2

Comment 13

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

This is due to a change in our HTML5 compliance, marking as duplicate.