Re: multi crashes SM on java sites, with a change in the UA

Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
> Michael Vincent van Rantwijk, MultiZilla wrote:
>> Philip Chee wrote:
>>> On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:38:41 -0700, Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> it was crashing on the "1.8.3.4e" part of Multizilla.
>>>
>>> As I said "brain dead" browser sniffing. It thought it was running in a
>>> Gecko 1.8.3.4e browser.
>>>
>>> Phil
>>
>> The funny thing is that my younger brother (Bryan) uses Java every 
>> single day (World of Warcraft) and for as long as I can remember, but 
>> he never complaint or otherwise ran into trouble.
>>
>> I'm not saying that there isn't a bug, or that we shouldn't change 
>> anything, but I do wonder why he never crashes?!?
>>
>> Michael
> 
> thats not what the original problem is.  Yes, I view many sites with 
> java and never run into a problem.  Its only when I add to the user 
> agent line that I run into the problems. And I narrowed it down to:
> 
> general.useragent.vendorSub = 1.8.3.4e
> 
> that is causing the problems.

I will blog about this, and my efforts to solve this problem later today.

Thank you for the reminder!

Michael