Bug 1385414

Summary: Some sites do not work correctly with Fedora packaged Firefox
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Shantanu Goel <sgoel01>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 24CC: gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak, pjasicek, stransky
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OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.bmwusa.com/standard/content/byo/default.aspx
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Description Shantanu Goel 2016-10-16 23:03:09 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
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Some sites do not function correctly with the Fedora packaged version of Firefox but work fine with the upstream Firefox.  I see this problem for on www.bmwusa.com, www.porsche.com among others

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://www.bmwusa.com/standard/content/byo/default.aspx
2. Select a car to configure from page
3. You will not be able to select the colors or any of the tabs labeled "Interior", "Exterior", etc.
4. Repeat steps 1-3 with upstream Firefox and all tabs and buttons will function correctly
Actual Results:  
Site does not work correctly with Fedora's Firefox but has no issues when using the same upstream version.

Expected Results:  
Site should work correctly with Fedora's Firefox as it does with upstream version

Behave the same as upstream Firefox

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2016-10-17 08:43:58 UTC
I can reproduce that with my old profile. When I create a new one ($firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote) it works fine. Looks like something is broken in your recent profile (mine has some old cookies for google ads). You can see the errors on Browser console - in menu Tools -> Web Developer -> Web Console.

You may migrate your profile to a new one by hand (copy important files - see a mozilla site for details) or create a new one.

Comment 2 Shantanu Goel 2016-10-17 12:14:33 UTC
(In reply to Martin Stransky from comment #1)
> I can reproduce that with my old profile. When I create a new one ($firefox
> -ProfileManager -no-remote) it works fine. Looks like something is broken in
> your recent profile (mine has some old cookies for google ads). You can see
> the errors on Browser console - in menu Tools -> Web Developer -> Web
> Console.
> 
> You may migrate your profile to a new one by hand (copy important files -
> see a mozilla site for details) or create a new one.

Sorry, your suggestion does not work for me.  I even moved my .mozilla directory out of the way to ensure nothing old was in the way and still got the same results.  Also, your explanation does not address the fact that upstream firefox (49.0.1) does not have any issue with the site with my regular profile.  I see this message in the Web Console when using the Fedora Firefox which I do not see with upstream Firefox:

Password fields present on an insecure (http://) page. This is a security risk that allows user login credentials to be stolen.[Learn More]

Thanks,
Shantanu

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