The problem here, which happens on sites from time to time, is that they use lazy poorly written UA sniffing to check if they support a browser. I've seen plenty of sites, frequently banks, that have a list of UAs they support and have their site automatically say they don't support any others. Their whitelist gets the working site and everyone else gets an error message or broken code. It breaks for Linux not because of anything having to do with Firefox or Linux, but because in their lazy world Linux doesn't even exist. It looks for the versions of Firefox it supports on Windows and Mac, then assumes the rest are incompatible. It's irritating, but it happens (though less frequently these days, I think). In these instances it's not that Mozilla is treating Linux as anything other than a Tier 1 platform, it's the site doing it.
Aside from hacking around it with UA spoofing, as mentioned above, the only recourse for things like this is to tell the site to fix it. After I confirmed this bug it needed a little more investigation, and one of use probably should've done so and moved this to the Technical Evangelism component to have someone ask them to fix it, though sadly, that often goes nowhere too. Sorry. Glad it's fixed now, though. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/575897 Title: No text cursor for login on CitiCard website Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Invalid Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: firefox The cursor disappears on the first login line of the login form of the CitiCard website after a second or two and is unrecoverable. While it is present, it is inactive. This is not a problem with Google Chrome, nor with any other website using Firefox in my experience. It is annoying to have to use two web browsers in order to get my work done and so would appreciate your remedying this issue. Greg Morgansen ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl Architecture: i386 Date: Wed May 5 09:57:36 2010 FirefoxPackages: firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 firefox-branding 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 abroswer N/A abrowser-branding N/A InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: firefox To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/575897/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
