[opensuse] Re: [RESOLVED] Site does not work in openSUSE version of Firefox but OK in Mozilla version?

On 10/26/07, Mark Goldstein <goldstein.mark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

On 10/23/07, Mark Goldstein <goldstein.mark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have strange situation. The whole story is quite long, but briefly -
bank site works correctly in Firefox under MS Windows and in Mozilla
version of FF under openSUSE, but does not work in openSUSE version
of FF.
...

What happens is that the account page has upper line with "clickable"
icons and account data and also some "notebook" type menu with
clickable lines.

When it works (MS Windows and Mozilla version of FF), the page is rendered once.
Under openSUSE FF the page is initially drawn correctly, but after
some delay it is re-drawn and this time it is distorted (no account
data) and icons and tabs becomes not clickable (cursor shape is not
changed on these items also).
I can say for sure that it did not work in openSUSE FF 2.0.0.5 and
does not work in 2.0.0.8 (latest).

I compared page source code in working case (under Mozilla FF) and in
bad case (SUSE FF) and to my surprise found out that when the page is
opened under Mozila FF, it contains reference to ieEmu.js while in
SUSE FF this script is not used.
I guess ieEmu is emulation of Internet Explorer.
So it looks like somehow SUSE version of FF identifies itself
differently and site does not handle it as FF.

I've checked that SUSE version has additional useragent fields: vendor
and vendorSub. Could they cause such a behavior?


Strange as it is, bank site probably uses these strings to identify
the client browser.
After adding these 2 fields to Mozilla FF, it stopped working.
I then removed them from SUSE FF (by editing firefox-novell.js) and
got the site working correctly in SUSE browser.
I hope, removing of these variables does not break anything?

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Mark Goldstein
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