614195 - Amazon.co.uk Black Friday Lightning Deals broken in beta 7 and nightly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[FP]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101122 Firefox/4.0b8pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101122 Firefox/4.0b8pre

The amazon.co.uk Black Friday lightning deals widget works in IE8 and Fx 3.6.12 but does not appear in Fx 4 b7 and nightlies. I am testing with a clean profile.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit the URL: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deals-Week/b/ref=nav_swm_bf?ie=UTF8&node=350613011

Actual Results:  
The Lightning deals box is not there and the web console contains the following error:

Exception: Deal is not defined Source File: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deals-Week/b/ref=nav_swm_bf?ie=UTF8&node=350613011&pf_rd_p=216344327&pf_rd_s=nav-sitewide-msg&pf_rd_t=4201&pf_rd_i=navbar-4201&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=0FPZB7SPPF1BVC8X5G9F Line: 1514, Column: 0 Category: content javascript

Expected Results:  
The lightning deals box should be there as it is in Fx 3.6.12 and IE8.

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

Error: assignment to undeclared variable Deal
Source file: http://z-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/goldbox/client-side/csld_multi_category_center_js-v4._V195790813_.js
Line: 368

"use strict"; in the  above JavaScript source file.

Maybe misuse "use strict" or missing var.
Seems that "Tech Evangelism"

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Not only evangelism, but a duplicate.  We've been trying to get Amazon to fix this for months now.  See bug 579119.

That said, maybe Amazon UK needs to be evangelized separately....

FP, I suggest contacting them as a customer to complain that their code is broken.  Maybe that'll motivate them.

Comment 3

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

I guess it's that special time of the year when one is able to reproduce a Black Friday TE bug.

Everything seems to be working as expected in 25 stable.