online.visualstudio.com - Firefox is unsupported browser

[digitarald]

URL: https://online.visualstudio.com/

Browser / Version: Firefox 78.0
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.15
Tested Another Browser: Yes Chrome

Problem type: Something else
Description: Site redirects with a browser not supported warning
Steps to Reproduce:
Site shows "Your browser isn’t currently supported in the preview, but we’ll be adding support soon." and then redirects.

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[softvision-oana-arbuzov]

Thanks for the report @digitarald , I was able to reproduce the issue.

Tested with:
Browser / Version: Firefox Nightly 78.0a1 (2020-05-18)
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro

Moving to Needsdiagnosis for further investigation.

[karlcow]

:) so they say it. Maybe it's true.
anyway this is user agent sniffing. @digitarald did you report to know why they fail the need to block some browsers for now?

Moving to contactready and we can contact people at MS.

[digitarald]

@miketaylr is on a thread. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Afirefox points to some of the issues.

[karlcow]

a known issue microsoft/vscode#85252 and already being discussed.
Thanks @digitarald this will help keep track of the discussion

[softvision-oana-arbuzov]

The issue has been fixed. Navigating to the provided URL, I'm redirected to https://github.com/features/codespaces and there is no "Unsupported browser" message displayed.

Tested with:
Browser / Version: Firefox Nightly 91.0a1 (2021-06-03)
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro, MacOS 11.3.1

@digitarald can you still reproduce it on your side?