614577 - RSS feed renders as its XML instead of browser style

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox Graveyard :: RSS Discovery and Preview, defect)

Description

[ryan.coey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12

When trying to view this RSS feed I receive various results.  Sometimes it displays correctly with the browser style, sometimes it simply displays as plaintext.  

Other interesting aspects.  The calling page is http://www.thebestincincinnati.com/test/pages/Blog .  If you click the RSS feed button in the address bar it always displays correctly in a new window.  Right clicking and opening the link in a new window also always works.  However, clicking or opening in new tab is always unpredictable.

I have changed the target attribute, removed special characters, basically tried everything I could find.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Nav to http://www.thebestincincinnati.com/test/pages/Blog/rss.xml
2.Refresh over and over
3.
Actual Results:  
Does not consistently display the browser styled RSS feed.  

Expected Results:  
Always display styled RSS feed.

Comment 1

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

On WinXP there's no Problem loading the Feed several Times with either Fx 3.6 or Trunk.

Per http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F
%2Fwww.thebestincincinnati.com%2Ftest%2Fpages%2FBlog%2Frss.xml the Feed is okay.

No idea besides maybe an external Influence like a Security App.

Comment 2

[ryan.coey]

Computers it was initially having issues with were all Windows 7.  Just tested on home PC with Vista and was able to reproduce however sometimes took 5+ refreshes.

Comment 3

[rom]

I have the same problem with Firefox 4.0b13 on Linux 64 bits.
Sometimes rss feeds show XML. If I click on "back" and reclick on the rss link, it works…

Comment 4

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.