617530 - Scripting on Yelp.com has been broken for months in Firefox 4, and nobody has filed a buy yet?

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 608651

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dan Dascalescu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b7) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b7) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b7

The following elements do not work on Yelp.com:

* Viewing business photos
* The map
* Clicking the Useful/Cool/Funny buttons under a review.
* clicking the "filtered reviews" link (example at http://www.yelp.com/biz/kekaha-kai-state-park-kailua)
* Clicking the "Read more" link (example at http://www.yelp.com/biz/kekaha-kai-beach-park-kona-coast-state-park-kailua-kona)

What's more worrying is that there are about 75 "Firefox makes me sad" reports about Yelp:

http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/site/http/yelp.com?version=4.0b7
http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/site/http/yelp.com?version=4.0b6

These 75 reports are the tip of the iceberg, as they were sent by people who were bothered enough to report the issue. I myself, a tech-savvy user, have just swallowed it and launched Yelp.com in Chrome, before finally having enough of it and searching for other reports.

What's Bad:

These reports seem ignored, and I'd say, reasonably so, as a large part of them are written in a style that's very far away from a cogent bug report; that is, if they're written in English at all. (See http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/site/http/apple.com?version=4.0b6)

What we can do:

Let's re-enable the "Report a broken website" function. It's much easier for a user to click on a UI element that will cause the current site to be reported as broken, and by sheer frequency of reports for a given domain, we can take a look and determine what the problem is, even with low quality descriptions of the problem. In fact, I would suggest not even prompting the user to describe what's wrong.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[John P Baker]

Some (all?) of these would appear to be bug 608651.

[The main reason that "Report a broken website" was removed is that the reports weren't being checked - at least not enough to match reporter's expectations.]

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

marking as dupe of bug 608651, I'm sure that those bug covers most of this one.
THe "report a broken" website function might be easier for the users but someone must analyze all those reports and that is nearly impossible.

Comment 5

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Hiding spam in comment 3/4.