I can confirm that, as a workaround, if you install the User Agent Switcher:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/ and simply create a new user agent -- I called mine "Firefox 8.0" -- and edit out the "Ubuntu; " (notice that the space after the semicolon is removed), that this temporarily fixes the "vnd.wap.xhtml+xml" problem, at least for the 4-5 sites I checked. Note that the User Agent Switcher, when you create a new entry, prompts you with the default user agent string of your version of Firefox. Thus, this is really easy to do -- you do not have to create an entirely new user agent string, simply edit the default as I described. Just for clarity, you (obviously) must switch your user agent to your new agent using Tools -> Default User Agent. Once you change it, the menu also changes (which I think is confusing at first), so in my case the Tools menu changes to Tools -> Firefox 8.0. This did not fix the problem I'm having with one website rendering raw HTML -- the web interface for a D-Link DGS-1210-24 managed switch -- and I have tried using several other user agent strings (i.e., IE6, IE7, etc.) to no avail. So, I suspect this particular problem of mine is related to other changes within FF8 not having to do with the user agent string. I have attached a screenshot of the relevant settings in my User Agent Switcher. ** Attachment added: "screenshot.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/897794/+attachment/2620895/+files/screenshot.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897794 Title: Firefox 8 User Agent String "Ubuntu;" addition causes attempt to download rather than display Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The patch added by Chris Coulson in the FF 8 packages to add "Ubutnu;" to FireFox's User Agent string has caused some sites to start offering a download of a "application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml" or similar file. This change seems to have caused an issue with 51degrees.com's .NET Mobile Framework. Visiting a site that uses the framework now prompts to download an "application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml" file. Obviously, this is likely the fault of the framework, and not Ubuntu. But I felt it should be logged, and I could not find any launchpad bug regarding this change. debian/patches/ubuntu-ua-string-changes.patch > Description: Add "Ubuntu" to the platform part of the UA string > Author: Chris Coulson <[email protected]> The User Agent changed from: > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1 to > Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/897794/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
