Last modified: 2010-06-07 14:17:57 UTC
Currently Iceweasel is not treated as a UsabilityInitiative-compatible user-agent, according to my test on http://prototype.wikimedia.org/s-6/index.php , though it's built from Firefox's source, and a "like Firefox" tag exists in its user-agent line. Maybe we can check "Gecko" instead of "Firefox" in browser feature check.
If we know it to be compatible or not, we should just add it to our tables. Our compatibility tables are only meant to be exclusive to browsers we are actually testing - all other user agents are treated as 100% working.
Iceweasel is the same software as Firefox, it just has a different name and logo, so we should be fine there.
They have a few more patches than that. Here's the patches from Debian testing: 39 0001-Avoid-wrong-sessionstore-data-to-keep-windows-out-of.patch 24 0002-Avoid-spurious-Run-items-in-application-handlers-con.patch 40 0003-Fix-misalignments-in-help-command-line.patch 25 0004-browser-components-build-Makefile.in-Link-against-ns.patch 33 0005-Remove-leaktest-files-in-make-clean.patch 23 0006-Remove-automation.py-in-make-clean.patch 35 0007-Remove-general.useragent.locale-prefs-from-firefox-..patch 137 0008-Rename-Firefox-to-Iceweasel.patch 27 0009-Set-MOZ_APP_NAME-to-iceweasel.patch 27 0010-Our-name-should-be-Iceweasel-not-Firefox.patch 24 0011-Set-the-profile-path-explicitly.patch 58 0012-Replace-APP-with-firefox-in-some-places.patch 42 0013-Use-googpub-phish-shavar-instead-of-goog-phish-shava.patch 25 0014-Force-to-not-use-fshort-wchar.patch 157 0015-Check-less-things-during-configure-when-using-libxul.patch 716 total No changes during the rendering engine that I can see. So it's safe to count it as Firefox for usability initiative purposes.
(In reply to comment #1) > If we know it to be compatible or not, we should just add it to our tables. Our > compatibility tables are only meant to be exclusive to browsers we are actually > testing - all other user agents are treated as 100% working. But I can only see the traditional edit toolbar there in Iceweasel. Nothing from UsabilityInitiative appears.
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #1) > > If we know it to be compatible or not, we should just add it to our tables. Our > > compatibility tables are only meant to be exclusive to browsers we are actually > > testing - all other user agents are treated as 100% working. > > But I can only see the traditional edit toolbar there in Iceweasel. Nothing > from UsabilityInitiative appears. Which version of Iceweasel do you use? Could you provide us with the exact User-Agent string your browser sends (or the value of the JavaScript variable navigator.userAgent)?
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091123 Iceweasel/3.5.8 (like Firefox/3.5.8)
Fixed in r67535, will be deployed later today.
