786623 - Unable to play YouTube videos on tablets; redirection loop on 'Play'

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Lord [:cwiiis]]

Exactly the same issue as bug #766914, but specific to the Google Nexus 7, it seems. Affects 17 and 18 (central), I've not tested on 15 or 16 (which have a work-around that should stop this from happening, so should be fine?).

Works fine on the Galaxy Nexus.

Comment 1

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

I have confirmed the issue on a Google Nexus 7.

Firefox 15.0 works
Aurora 16.0a2 2012-08-27 (this will be beta) works
Aurora 17.0a2 2012-08-28 affected
Nightly 18.0a1 2012-08-29 affected

Looks like we regressed something on 17.

Comment 2

[Chris Lord [:cwiiis]]

(In reply to Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] from comment #1)
> I have confirmed the issue on a Google Nexus 7.
> 
> Firefox 15.0 works
> Aurora 16.0a2 2012-08-27 (this will be beta) works
> Aurora 17.0a2 2012-08-28 affected
> Nightly 18.0a1 2012-08-29 affected
> 
> Looks like we regressed something on 17.

17 is when the work-around documented in bug #766914 was taken out (as apparently, the site ought to work without it now). Perhaps we have a different user-agent on tablet, and the evangelism didn't cover that?

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7" affected. They are probably sniffing for 'mobile'; where we have 'tablet'.

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Nexus 7 uses the Tablet UA as well.

Comment 5

[Chris Lord [:cwiiis]]

Does this affect 10" tablets too? (thinking of the bug title)

Comment 6

[Brian Nicholson (:bnicholson)]

We use the tablet UA for all tablets, so I imagine all tablets are broken for youtube.com (unverified).

Comment 7

[Brian Nicholson (:bnicholson)]

Attachment: Use mobile UA for YouTube on tablets

Fixes the issue on a Galaxy Tab II 7".

Comment 8

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Comment on attachment 656990 [details] [diff] [review]
Use mobile UA for YouTube on tablets

ZOMG! Not this again!

If we must, we must. Who is on the hook to get YouTube to try harder?

Comment 9

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Jet?

Comment 10

[Brian Nicholson (:bnicholson)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/d474bda79729

Comment 11

[Brian Nicholson (:bnicholson)]

Comment on attachment 656990 [details] [diff] [review]
Use mobile UA for YouTube on tablets

[Approval Request Comment]
Bug caused by (feature/regressing bug #): 
User impact if declined: tablet users cannot view youtube videos
Testing completed (on m-c, etc.): 
Risk to taking this patch (and alternatives if risky): low risk
String or UUID changes made by this patch: none

Comment 12

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/d474bda79729

Comment 13

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Should we open a new bug to remove this hack dependent on getting YouTube to fix their sniffing?

Comment 14

[Brian Nicholson (:bnicholson)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/rev/08d165058deb

Comment 15

[Brian Nicholson (:bnicholson)]

This doesn't affect anything before 17 since we didn't backout bug 766914 until 17.

Comment 16

[Adrian Tamas (:AdrianT)]

Issue is no longer reproducible on Mozilla Firefox 17.0b1 and Nightly 19.0b1 2012-10-10 on Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (Android 4.0.4)