Error in Firefox 3.5 even on CC homepage

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Browse to page in Firefox 3.5
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Everything works but an alert box pops up saying "Scanstyles does nothing
in Webkit/Firefox".

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
This is even on your homepage !! (I am using latest version 2.04 on my
website). Linux.

Please provide any additional information below.
The problem appears to be resolvable by removing the statement

else curvyCorners.alert('Scanstyles does nothing in Webkit/Firefox');

from the main body of the code.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by st...@sgperkins.org on 20 Jul 2009 at 3:51

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I cannot reproduce this in Firefox 3.5 or 3.51 (Windows), nor in Firefox 3.0.12 
under GNU/Linux, either 32-bit or 64-bit.

Possibly you have the browser's user-agent string configured to mask its 
identity as 
firefox? That could provoke this problem, and it raises an interesting issue 
about 
the way the browser-detect code works at present.

Original comment by c.1%smit...@gtempaccount.com on 24 Jul 2009 at 6:17

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That is an interesting point. I have checked, and the version of Firefox I have 
is
reporting:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090716 Ubuntu/9.04
(jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5.1 

This is because I installed it from the Ubuntu repository. According to Ubuntu 

"we only use official branding [Firefox] for our default browser (default for 
jaunty
is 3.0) also we explicitly want both to be installable side by side"

I knew the name was different in the GUI, didn't even consider the user-agent 
etc ! 

It might be better to remove the error message anyway and just exit gracefully ?

Original comment by system.a...@strategicbookings.com on 24 Jul 2009 at 6:39

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In r127 I have (marginally) improved the firefox detection code, which should 
obviate this error message (although not, obviously, on the curvycorners.net 
home 
page until the next release).

(As you say, the default Ubuntu Firefox is 3.0.12 and I find it really strange 
that 
Canonical would tinker with the user agent string as if it were a question of 
"official branding". (I would think that was a question for the Mozilla people 
anyway.) Oh well, we live and learn. (And whilst on the subject of 
bleeding-edge 
Linux browsers, Opera 10 is looking extremely good in its 64-bit Gnu/Linux 
incarnation.)

You say that it might be better to remove the error message and exit 
gracefully. 
From your standpoint, as a client programmer, I can well appreciate what a 
nuisance 
it is to have these noisy error messages popping up and being a pain. However, 
from 
my standpoint, I much prefer to have early warnings of anything potentially 
dangerous in the script. As it happens, the error message that you were picking 
up 
was benign, but merely served to show up a non-fatal shortcoming in the script. 
(You 
can suppress these messages anyway, without altering the script, simply by 
defining 
curvyCornersVerbose as false before you include the script.) I hope that this 
policy 
has paid off, in this instance, by contributing to a slightly more robust 
browser 
detection which, had it gone unnoticed, might have caused some extremely 
peculiar 
misbehaviour.

Thank you for reporting this!

Original comment by c.1%smit...@gtempaccount.com on 24 Jul 2009 at 11:45

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I didn't know about the verbose setting. Perfect.
Thanks

Original comment by system.a...@strategicbookings.com on 24 Jul 2009 at 11:53