745516 - Hotmail's "messenger" dropdown does not finish loading in Firefox 14

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 736731

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Varun Vijayaraghavan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120414 Firefox/14.0a1
Build ID: 20120414034341

Steps to reproduce:

I went to hotmail.com, and signed in.


Actual results:

When I click on the "messenger" drop down, the first section is always "Loading", and never completes.


Expected results:

It should load the list of online friends, or indicate there are none.

Comment 1

[Varun Vijayaraghavan]

This issue was present on earlier versions of Firefox too, say around FF8. But it was more sporadic, and I used to get around it by refreshing the page a few times. Now, it doesn't work at all.

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

I can reproducee 100%  in Aurora13.0a12 and Nightly14.0a1 but I cannot reproduce in Firefox12 beta and earlier.
And the following errors appear in Error console.

Error: Microsoft.Live.Core.Internal is undefined
Source file: https://secure.wlxrs.com/_D/F$Live.SiteContent.Messenger/4.4.1585/release/Microsoft.Live.Messenger.Services.Loader.js
Line: 149
Error: Microsoft.Live.Core.Internal is undefined
Source file: https://secure.shared.live.com/_D/F$Live.SiteContent.Messenger/4.4.1585/LocalStorage.html#domain=by164w.bay164.mail.live.com&loaderPath=https://secure.wlxrs.com/h2zXAoTCuYjg85Q3WXbx9Q/loader.cxp.js&channelNames=DefaultLocalStorageChannel;MessengerStorageChannel&cb:httpsApplication=true&cb:compatibility.microsoftAjaxPropertyNames=false&cs:messenger.loaderName=loader.cxp.js&cb:messenger.sameDomainEndpointsAsLocalEnabled=true&cs:market=en-jp&cs:messenger.loaderPath=https%3A%2F%2Fsecure.wlxrs.com%2Fh2zXAoTCuYjg85Q3WXbx9Q%2F&cs:compatibility.version=current&
Line: 218


Regression window(m-c)
Works:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ed57abebd328
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120303 Firefox/13.0a1 ID:20120303051507
Fails:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/baec1efc87a4
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120304 Firefox/13.0a1 ID:20120304031031
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=ed57abebd328&tochange=baec1efc87a4

Regression window(m-i)
Works:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/d43c3e308c82
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120302 Firefox/13.0a1 ID:20120303052207
Fails:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/7c62688f88fa
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120303 Firefox/13.0a1 ID:20120303053807
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=d43c3e308c82&tochange=7c62688f88fa

Triggered by:
8cdce56098cd	Matheus Kerschbaum — Bug 687579 part 1: Remove globalStorage implementation. r=jst Bug 687579 part 1: Remove globalStorage implementation. r=jst

Comment 3

[:Ms2ger (he/him; ⌚ UTC+1/+2)]

See also bug 736731.

Comment 4

[Raul D @ Yahoo!]

Yes seems related to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736731

I've notified the Windows Live Messenger teams

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Has someone actually contacted Microsoft about this?  Or are we hoping that assignment to "Evangelism" will magically make this happen?

Requesting tracking; this seems like a pretty serious web compat regression....  Worse yet, since we let this sit for a full cycle we can't even really back out the relevant patch on beta.  :(

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I guess the evang in bug 736731 might end up covering this....

Comment 7

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

Given comment 4, duping to bug 736731 (which is tracked for FF13).