604936 - There is another incompatibility with Firefox/4.0b6 and MSN e-mail

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 627729

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[medplantman1]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b6) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b6
Build Identifier: Firefox/4.0b6

After a new e-mail is open for composing for awhile, Firefox will not let you add an attachment.  This problem does not occur with Opera or Internet Explorer.  When I try to give feedback, I get an error 403 "Forbidden" 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open MSN e-mail
2.Compose for awhile
3.Try to attach a word document
Actual Results:  
Clicking on attachment doesn't do anything

Expected Results:  
It should have allowed addition of a Word document

It is very frustrating that you say you want feedback on your beta version, but don't allow us to submit feedback.

Comment 1

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Does the issue occur with the latest nightly? http://nightly.mozilla.org/

Comment 2

[medplantman1]

I just updated to Firefox 4.0 Beta 10 before I read your e-mail about the latest nightly.  Use of your "Minefield DID NOT Correct the problem.  Furthermore, this Beta 10 now makes MSN e-mail unusable because the screen keeps flashing and "connecting".  What changes have you made that would affect MSN e-mails?

Comment 3

[medplantman1]

I just looked at the Firefox Error Console and found multiple occurrences of the following warnings:

1.  Warning: Selector expected.  Ruleset ignored due to bad selector.
Source File: http://by152w.bay152.mail.live.com/mail/InboxLight.aspx?n=1881711547
Line: 104

2.   Warning: Unexpected end of file while searching for closing } of invalid rule set.
Source File: http://by152w.bay152.mail.live.com/mail/InboxLight.aspx?n=964575019
Line: 104

3.   Warning: Error in parsing value for 'filter'.  Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://gfx4.hotmail.com/mail/15.4.3057.0112/styles/Base/Full/hig.css
Line: 1

4.   Warning: Error in parsing value for 'display'.  Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://gfx4.hotmail.com/mail/15.4.3057.0112/styles/Base/Full/hig.css
Line: 1

5.   Warning: Unknown property 'zoom'.  Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://gfx4.hotmail.com/mail/15.4.3057.0112/styles/Base/Full/hig.css
Line: 1

6.   Warning: Unknown property 'zoom'.  Declaration dropped.
Source File: https://secure.wlxrs.com/XBjr4OUb0B0tV4scvbFZHTFHilG6LWqBgbdUFG7DNzF7rykli!HBe!32DNrbsvqSEn4LaIrlwoWzSxSHAcWalQ/Base/15.40.1209/NYKpPzcj59cwlx_webimui.css?ZfDHJ0dwkwrfIMoja3-R7w
Line: 1

7.   Warning: Unknown property 'text-overflow'.  Declaration dropped.
Source File: https://secure.wlxrs.com/XBjr4OUb0B0tV4scvbFZHTFHilG6LWqBgbdUFG7DNzF7rykli!HBe!32DNrbsvqSEn4LaIrlwoWzSxSHAcWalQ/Base/15.40.1209/NYKpPzcj59cwlx_webimui.css?ZfDHJ0dwkwrfIMoja3-R7w
Line: 1

8.   Warning: Error in parsing value for 'white-space'.  Declaration dropped.
Source File: https://secure.wlxrs.com/XBjr4OUb0B0tV4scvbFZHTFHilG6LWqBgbdUFG7DNzF7rykli!HBe!32DNrbsvqSEn4LaIrlwoWzSxSHAcWalQ/Base/15.40.1209/NYKpPzcj59cwlx_webimui.css?ZfDHJ0dwkwrfIMoja3-R7w
Line: 1

I also found the following two information notices:

1.   c.live.com : server does not support RFC 5746, see CVE-2009-3555

2.   Security Error: Content at https://secure.shared.live.com/ may not load data from http://by152w.bay152.mail.live.com/mail/InboxLight.aspx?n=1079129570.

Maybe this will help you determine what is causing the problem.

Comment 4

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

You are likely seeing bug 627729 -> there is a code fix required by Microsoft to fix that

Comment 5

[dE]

(In reply to comment #4)
> You are likely seeing bug 627729 -> there is a code fix required by Microsoft
> to fix that

Thus you'll([e-mail]) be on the mercy of Microsoft (again). Actually they'll ensure you're forced to use Internet Explorer on your copy of windows.

Comment 6

[medplantman1]

No, I dfo not have to use Internet Explorer to make MSN e-mail work.  It works well in Google Chrome and in Opera as well as in Internet Explorer.  It worked in FireFox until your last update, so don't blame the problem on Microsoft.  Firefox does not fix its bugs in a timely manner, so I give up; I am switching my browser from Firefox to Google Chrome.

Comment 8

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> It worked in FireFox until your last update, so don't blame the problem
> on Microsoft. 

That may be true; but it was still a mistake in Microsoft's code. They were serving different/broken content to Firefox (or more correctly, sniffing for gecko, the engine it uses) compared to other browsers; which was not compatible with Firefox's new HTML 5 parser. So whilst changes had been made in Firefox; it was still Microsoft that were not following the spec.

Microsoft have since fixed the problem; so if you wish to use Firefox again, you can.

Comment 9

[dE]

Yeah, and maybe you'll discover new features if you use IE8 useragent that MS wanted to give exclusively to Windows customers.