Waterfox: waterfoxproject.org displays operating system incorrect

[TomJansen]

On my Windows machine, waterfoxproject.org greets me with a download for Mac button. I am using Waterfox to browse to waterfoxproject.org.

On Linux, the site detects my machine correctly.

[TomJansen]

It works on Waterfox 56 now.

[Squall-Leonhart]

I actually see this same thing in both my 8.x and 10 VM's.

[TomJansen]

With Waterfox 56?

[Squall-Leonhart]

Suddenly its fine on 8.1, but 10 still shows Download for Mac.

oh, Windows 7 host with waterfox 56 also shows "Download for Mac"

strange, i opened a second tab and they load the for windows button properly now even in the first tabs of each.

[TomJansen]

Checked again, on Windows 7, it shows "download for mac" for a split second and then switches to "download for windows". Can't test on others OSes for the moment.

[grahamperrin]

With Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0, the download offer is for Windows.

With Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_4) AppleWebKit/603.1.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1 Safari/603.1.30, the offer is for Mac.

With Firefox Quantum on a Mac, the offer is for Mac.

[cnleo]

Maybe a Javascript thing? Used NoScript Addon or something that blocked JS?

[grahamperrin]

This evening with 56.0.2_1 on FreeBSD-CURRENT, I found an offer for Linux, which is probably expected in my case. However: with Firefox and Waterfox there's often the problem of stale/outdated content – I can't guess how many hours/days ago the page was loaded – so …

… with the default user agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0.2 Waterfox/56.0.2 I keyed Control-F5 then the offer became

Download for Mac

– with no subsequent transition to a different platform.

[grahamperrin]

Hmm, maybe the issue is random/transient (I do have a heavily extended profile, maybe an extension increases the risk of the issue occurring).

In a new tab, subsequent visits to https://www.waterfoxproject.org/ were not bugged. The _Mac_ quickly switched to _Linux_.

I toyed with other URLs:

• https://waterfoxproject.org/
• http://waterfoxproject.org/

– could not reproduce the issue.

[TomJansen]

The first time I loaded the site in a long time (no cached version) the offer was mac (but I am on Windows). Then I opened a second tab with the website and the offer on the second tab became Windows. Reloading the first tab changed it from mac to windows, so I think it has something to with a the cache of the site.

Waterfox 56.0.3 btw

[grahamperrin]

Following the recent reset of the CDN cache (for a different issue) I make a screen recording of this issue.

If it helps, from near the end of the recording:

TypeError: Argument 1 of MutationObserver.observe is not an object.[Learn More] scrollmap.xml:99:37
background: Tab 25 was updated Object { status: "loading" }  background.js:62:8
background: Tab 25 was updated Object { title: "waterfoxproject.org/" }  background.js:62:8
background: Tab 25 was updated Object { status: "loading", url: "https://www.waterfoxproject.org/" }  background.js:62:8
background: Tab 25 was updated Object { title: "Waterfox - The free, open and priva…" }  background.js:62:8
Error: WebExtension context not found! ExtensionParent.jsm:778:13
Loading failed for the <script> with source “https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js”.  www.waterfoxproject.org:1
ReferenceError: $ is not defined[Learn More]  config.min.js:1:6267
    <anonymous> https://www.waterfoxproject.org/js/config.min.js:1:6267
Loading failed for the <script> with source “https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js”.  www.waterfoxproject.org:1
Error: WebExtension context not found! ExtensionParent.jsm:778:13
SecurityError: The operation is insecure.  widget_iframe.9c00c8ca14a8618c4db8e2c43139b138.html:12
background: Tab 25 was updated Object { status: "complete" }  background.js:62:8
succesfully created thumbnail for www.waterfoxproject.org/  conex-background.js:284:20
"Handler function DebuggerProgressListener.prototype.onStateChange threw an exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE) [nsIWebProgress.DOMWindow]"  nsresult: "0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE)"  location: "JS frame :: resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://devtools/server/actors/tab.js :: _docShellToWindow :: line 776"  data: no]
Stack: _docShellToWindow@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://devtools/server/actors/tab.js:776:9
_docShellsToWindows/<@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://devtools/server/actors/tab.js:800:38
_docShellsToWindows@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://devtools/server/actors/tab.js:800:12
_notifyDocShellsUpdate@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://devtools/server/actors/tab.js:804:19
DebuggerProgressListener.prototype.onStateChange<@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://devtools/server/actors/tab.js:1620:7
exports.makeInfallible/<@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://devtools/shared/ThreadSafeDevToolsUtils.js:109:14
Line: 776, column: 0"  ThreadSafeDevToolsUtils.js:88
"Handler function DebuggerProgressListener.prototype.onStateChange threw an exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE) [nsIWebProgress.DOMWindow]"  nsresult: "0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE)"  location: "JS frame :: resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://devtools/server/actors/tab.js :: DebuggerProgressListener.prototype.onStateChange< :: line 1623"  data: no]
Stack: DebuggerProgressListener.prototype.onStateChange<@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://devtools/server/actors/tab.js:1623:9
exports.makeInfallible/<@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://devtools/shared/ThreadSafeDevToolsUtils.js:109:14
Line: 1623, column: 0"  ThreadSafeDevToolsUtils.js:88
[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE) [nsIWebProgress.DOMWindow]"  nsresult: "0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/browser.js :: onStateChange :: line 5110"  data: no]  (unknown)
    onStateChange chrome://browser/content/browser.js:5110:9
    callListeners chrome://browser/content/tabbrowser.xml:492:24
    _callProgressListeners chrome://browser/content/tabbrowser.xml:513:13
    _callProgressListeners chrome://browser/content/tabbrowser.xml:595:22
    onStateChange chrome://browser/content/tabbrowser.xml:784:15
NS_NOINTERFACE: Component returned failure code: 0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE) [nsIWebProgress.DOMWindow]  WebNavigationContent.js:208
Error: WebExtension context not found!

The recording: https://photos.app.goo.gl/AUu9R0ADGSftBBuf1

Many extensions, and I have not attempted to reproduce the issue with Waterfox in safe mode, so I should not treat what's above as conclusive.

(There are other issues in the recording, I'll keep those separate from this issue 314.)

[grahamperrin]

Review time. Close this?

[TomJansen]

Yes, the whole website has changed, just tested it with internet explorer and waterfox and it works (windows 10)