Browser has problems downloading Mail Attachments in GMail

Bug Reports
#1

REPRODUCIBILITY (% or how often): 100%
BUILD ID = OS VERSION (Settings > About product): 4.3
HARDWARE (XA2, X10, X10 II, …): XA2 Plus
UI LANGUAGE: English
REGRESSION: (compared to previous public release: Yes, No, ?): i exprience this problem always. never worked.

DESCRIPTION:

It is not possible to download gmail mail attachments via the browser - > I always get an XML Parsing Error: undefined entity. Since i have no problems with deskto browsers to access the attachemnts - must be some SFOS Browser issue.

PRECONDITIONS:

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

  1. receive an EMail via GMail
  2. Login to gmail via the browser
  3. go to a mail with attachements
  4. try to download an attachemnt.

EXPECTED RESULT:

attachment is downloaded

ACTUAL RESULT:

error is displayed in the browser.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

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#2

Bug still persists with 4.4.0.58

#3

User-agent override fixing is enough to fix this:

Wrote testing steps to the PR if somebody want to try. Once this is merged, I will publish this to the user-agent override channel for devices using 78.8 engine. The new user-agent override file will be fetched by the engine after using the browser for a while.

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#4

@rainemak user agent overrides are not distributed via the package manager but updated separatly from within the browser?

#5

@thigg initial override comes via sailfish-browser package. After that follow up overrides are fetched from a server by gecko. Override updates are tailored from each engine version. Our aim of course is that we have as few overrides as possible.

#6

Landed fix today. After using your 4.4.0 upgraded device for a while you receive new override. I have already received mine.

To be noted that if you have been tampering with CUSTOM_UA environment variable you need to clean "general.useragent.override" line from $HOME/.local/share/org.sailfishos/browser/.mozilla/prefs.js.

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#7

@AndyWuest can you mark this solved?

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#8

It took a few days, but now it works :slight_smile:

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