627424 - Unable to display customer reviews at bestbuy.com in Firefox 4 beta and nightlies

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Tobias (:Tobbi) Markus]

Firefox 4 doesn't seem to display customer reviews at bestbuy.com

See http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Samsung+-+50%22+Class+/+720p+/+600Hz+/+3D+Plasma+HDTV/1201341.p?id=1218232913525&skuId=1201341 as an example.

Click the Customer Reviews heading and see that Firefox 4 doesn't display those:

See http://screencast.com/t/qhhn084u (FF4.0)

http://screencast.com/t/1nYZeVhPu (Firefox 3.6)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Worksforme in a current Mac nightly.  What OS are you seeing this on?

Comment 2

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Using Windows 7 on the latest nightly, I see the same thing - this shows in the error console:

Error: assignment to undeclared variable temp_visible
Source File: http://images.bestbuy.com/BestBuy_US/store/js/google.min.js
Line: 1

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That file starts with "use strict;"

I'm not seeing the error, but the relevant line is conditioned on some google ad stuff, so maybe I'm getting different ads or something?

In any case, in strict mode that line is in fact something that should raise an exception....

Sounds like this needs to be fixed on the site end.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That said, it's not clear to me that the error there is what's responsible for the problem with reviews not showing up...  Is there a way to disable strict mode so that can be checked?

Comment 5

[Benjamin Smedberg]

WFM on Windows with the latest nightly...

Comment 6

[Tanner Filip [:tanner]]

I can reproduce this on latest Linux nightly.

Comment 7

[orangezilla]

We picked this up with several other UK retail websites on mozillazine
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2043971&start=45

also affecting http://www.argos.co.uk, http://www.homebase.co.uk, http://www.comet.co.uk, http://www.ocado.com 

To reproduce the bug:

Click on some of the direct product links on this page of
the mozillazine thread
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2043971&start=30
the reviews then work, close tab, restart, open new tab, search for those
retail websites, go to site, navigate to a new product showing stars/reviews,
no reviews then show

Comment 8

[orangezilla]

A duplicate bug was filed earlier today for this https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630159 

Another site found (French) with the problem, navigate to an item, click avis client

http://www.darty.com/

Comment 9

[Tobias (:Tobbi) Markus]

That now seems resolved on the bestbuy.com site. Marking FIXED