956585 - usatoday.com serves desktop version to Firefox for Android UA

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[bug.zilla]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131228030204

Steps to reproduce:

Visited usatoday.com


Actual results:

Desktop version of the site is displayed


Expected results:

Mobile version should be displayed (e.g. like stock browser).

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Contact-form: http://www.usatoday.com/contactus

Comment 2

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Tested today from Japan. 
1. Accessing http://www.usatoday.com/ on Android device with Firefox
2. Getting a responsive Web site.

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

In Canada I get their desktop site. On my iPhone I get a touch (iPhone specific) mobile-site. In Chrome for Android I get their mobile site as well.

Comment 4

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Attachment: usatoday.png

Strange, I get a mobile-ish site that exhibits a different bug.

There's a fixed header that gets pushed down by the geolocation/share location prompt. After you refresh, it ends up in the right spot.

(nevermind the quality of the screenshots, that's some overaggressive "optimization" on my end).

Comment 5

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

(nevermind, the geolocation prompt has nothing to do with this--it seems related to the (infrequent) Breaking News headline... which I'm trying to see how to manually trigger to dig in).

Comment 6

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

OK, I think I figured it out - if there's a Breaking News notification _and_ a prompt to install the app from Google Play (which overlays the breaking notification (in red)), then the stuff I observed in my screenshot is the result if you don't close out both the app prompt and the notification. Not a real bug, just feels like one (especially as it has to coincide with an actual response from the breaking news api).

Comment 7

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Just tried again behind a Canadian proxy and still getting the mobile site, the same that I get from the US. 

Can the original reporter double check that they're still getting desktop content?

Comment 8

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

I see mobile content in Release, Beta, and Aurora. I see desktop content in Nightly.

Comment 9

[bug.zilla]

(In reply to Mike Taylor [:miketaylr] from comment #7)
> Just tried again behind a Canadian proxy and still getting the mobile site,
> the same that I get from the US. 
> 
> Can the original reporter double check that they're still getting desktop
> content?

In Nightly I still get the desktop version. Sorry I don't have Release on my device.

Comment 10

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

I get the mobile version just fine on Nightly too. I do, however, get the desktop version on FxOS..

Comment 11

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

The Firefox OS issue is tracked at Bug 961964