784144 - Facebook 'request desktop site' doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

Attachment: This is what I get when 'request desktop site' isn't checked

After requesting the desktop site for Facebook, it doesn't load the desktop site. Aurora 16.0a2 (2012-08-14)

Comment 1

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

Attachment: This is what I get when 'request desktop site' is checked

Comment 2

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

Attachment: This is what I get when 'request desktop site' is checked

Comment 3

[Xiao Meng Wei :xwei]

Fennec 15b5 is functioning correctly though.

Comment 4

[Xiao Meng Wei :xwei]

Just checked today's aurora build (20120820). I'm not seeing the bug any more. My device is Galaxy S3 with ICS.

Comment 5

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

confirmed - I can get to the desktop site now on aurora 16.0a2 2012-08-21 and beta 15. Although one thing to note - on aurora, it sent me direct to the desktop site, and to get to the mobile one, I had to check 'request desktop site' and uncheck it again. Beta works as expected though (defaulting to the mobile site first until I request the desktop site)

Comment 6

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

Request desktop site is a browser specific feature that functions by sending a desktop UA instead of a mobile UA. This is not an evangelism issue. (There's nothing to request of Facebook to support this feature.) Over to the general component.

Comment 7

[Brian Nicholson (:bnicholson)]

I can't reproduce this at all. Xiao or Karen, do you have any steps to reproduce this reliably? Or could you perhaps provide logcat dumps when this happens again?

Comment 8

[Xiao Meng Wei :xwei]

(In reply to Brian Nicholson (:bnicholson) from comment #7)
> I can't reproduce this at all. Xiao or Karen, do you have any steps to
> reproduce this reliably? Or could you perhaps provide logcat dumps when this
> happens again?

I was unable to reproduce this as well. Karen, do you mind giving the fennec version/device/android version of the device which you can reproduce this bug?

Comment 9

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

Attachment: Screenshot_2012-08-25-14-30-54.png

Facebook site: desktop site not requested returning the mobile site

Comment 10

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

Attachment: Screenshot_2012-08-25-14-36-41.png

Facebook site: desktop site requested (but a mobile variation has been returned

Comment 11

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

I'm on the latest Fx Beta (15.0, updated a day or so ago via automatic updates) using a Galaxy Nexus, Android 4.1.1.

I am adding two attachments based on the current beta - one where I haven't requested the FB desktop site [Screenshot_2012-08-25-14-30-54.png] and the second one where I had requested it [Screenshot_2012-08-25-14-36-41.png] and I'm getting another mobile site variation (but not the desktop site).

Comment 12

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

I can reproduce this too; Nightly (08/27). Just sign-in and flip the mode; one get's a 'good' mobile version, and on toggle a 'bad' mobile version as seen in the above screenshots.

Comment 14

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

IMO this bug is invalid. A browser can be configured to "request" a desktop site (i.e. send the same User-Agent string as a desktop browser) but many sites will use more and better signals than the UA string to determine if a browser is "mobile" or "desktop" - for example screen size. In fact, the website will usually be stronger and more adaptive if it does something more clever than a simple UA backend sniff, and we should not ask sites to dumb down their logic for us :)