723936 - Facebook serves an obsolete/limited basic mobile version of Facebook

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[David Tenser [:djst]]

(I know this bug is well-known, but I searched Bugzilla for Fennec bugs mentioning "Facebook" and couldn't find it, so I'm filing it to keep track of it.) 

While the URL is identical in both browsers (m.facebook.com), the page served to Fennec is an old version of their mobile website, while the page served to the Android stock browser is their newer/richer version. You can manually navigate to touch.facebook.com to see the newer site in Fennec.

Comment 1

[Demetrius S.]

That is probably Facebook's issue to deal with. Not properly serving up the correct site once you navigate towards them due to fennec's UA.

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Hence this bug being in the evangelism product.

Comment 3

[Demetrius S.]

As of May 1st Facebook appears to be serving mobile firefox the mew touch interface.

Comment 4

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

(In reply to Demetrius Schwab from comment #3)
> As of May 1st Facebook appears to be serving mobile firefox the mew touch
> interface.

Confirmed. It looks like it still has bugs with fennec native evident, but at least they've fixed the UA problem now to serve the better site. Resolving this as fixed. Aaron - Can you confirm for verification?

Comment 5

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Yep, I get their mobile m.facebook.com site now (Nightly (05/02)).

There are other Facebook issues still, like the WebKit used in their status/messaging/friends panels, but those are other bugs.

Comment 6

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

Good progress. I opened bug 751173 to deal with the redirect from facebook.com to m.facebook.com.

Comment 7

[Demetrius S.]

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #5)
> Yep, I get their mobile m.facebook.com site now (Nightly (05/02)).
> 
> There are other Facebook issues still, like the WebKit used in their
> status/messaging/friends panels, but those are other bugs.

Thats odd. When I goto touch.facebook.com on my android I get those problems, but when I goto touch.facebook.com on my pc the issues with the panels are fine. Could it be something to do with how firefox for android deals with it?

Comment 8

[Demetrius S.]

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #5)
> Yep, I get their mobile m.facebook.com site now (Nightly (05/02)).
> 
> There are other Facebook issues still, like the WebKit used in their
> status/messaging/friends panels, but those are other bugs.

Nor do I get those issues when i go to facebook in firefox beta for android.