Hi there.
Recently I installed the Shiretoko 3.5.2, which is not an official Firefox release, but more a release candidate so do speak. One major problem I discovered was that for many major websites it loses its sessions (i.e. on Facebook at least).
Now, it turns out that this is a mistake shared between this Shiretoko and Facebook, as Facebook tries to recognize the web browser used, and performs its actions based on that. When it doesn’t recognize the web browser clearly something undefined behavior happens. Well, undefined is maybe a little harsh, but at least the behavior is very strange.
But, I found out that if you change the settings “general.useragent.extra.firefox” in the about:config page from “Shiretoko/3.5.X” to “Firefox/3.5.X”, then your back in buisness.
Hope that they can finish and put a final Firefox 3.5 release into Ubuntu. Its not a good idea to wait 6 months for a new web browser release, as its the policy of the ubuntu release cycles. They should include such software releases during the 6 months period.
