Firefox 10 is here and you'd better double check your code.
Mozilla Firefox 10.0 was released yesterday and it seems that the new two digit version number is causing some trouble with server software that detects visiting browsers.
Among other things, it seems that a bug reported to Bugzilla – the list for bugs related to the Mozilla code releases – generates some issues with Network Solutions and their email service.
Contributor silkphoenix wrote:
“I upgraded to FF 10 and immediately found one website couldn’t recognize the two-digit version number. It’s the webmail website from www.networksolutions.com. It said I do not have a new FF version, it needs to be 2 or over. Revert back to 9.01 did not help, the warning still came up even I delete all cookies. I have to do a System Restore to fix the problem. I am sure there are other website have the same problem but don’t want to keep FF 10.0 to check.”
Silkphoenix further clarified the URL with the issues in a followup post:
“http://mail.xxx.com/interfaces/sso/login.php [where] “xxx” is the website name of each user, which is different from user to user. It’s the web mail program hosted by www.networksolutions.com.”
It seems that one has to have paid for personalized or business email from Network Solutions, that allows users to create and manage email accounts under their registered domain.
It seems that the ball is now in the court of Network Solutions to fix its code that apparently treats “Firefox 10” as “Firefox 1” 😀
Defective browser version recognition libraries are shared among other web sites, such as WhatBrowser.org which fails to detect Firefox 10.0 and Opera 11.60
It’s the type of lazy coding practices that led to the infamous Y2K bug a decade ago.
