813960 - flickr.com says Firefox 20 is an unsupported browser; tells to download e.g. Firefox

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Anthony Ricaud (:rik)]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #689627 +++

Steps to reproduce:
 1) Make sure you don't have cookies from flickr.com
 2) In about:config, set general.useragent.override to Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:20.0) Gecko/19.0 Firefox/19.0
 3) Navigate to any Flickr photo page, e.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hsivonen/5887960514/in/photostream
 4) In about:config, set general.useragent.override to Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:20.0) Gecko/20.0 Firefox/20.0
 5) Reload the Flickr photo page.

Actual results:
When viewing Flickr with the Firefox 19 UA string, there's no notice about your browser being unsupported. When viewing Flickr (for the first time) with the Firefox 20 UA string, there is a notice saying that your browser in unsupported and you should upgrade to the latest version of Firefox (or Chrome, Safari or IE).

Expected results:
No unsupported browser notice with the Firefox 20 UA string.

Comment 1

[Anthony Ricaud (:rik)]

Stephen: Can you help out with this again? Thanks!

Comment 2

[Stephen Woods]

Sure thing

Comment 3

[Stephen Woods]

I want to say to our credit that this wasn't the same code with the same bad regex. Different code was written to explicitly push Firefox 2 into that bucket. Deploying a fix now.

Comment 4

[Anthony Ricaud (:rik)]

Looks like the fix has been deployed.

Thanks Stephen for the quick fix and deploy!