[tbb-bugs] #16874 [Tor Browser]: https://sports.yahoo.com/dailyfantasy is broken with Tor Browser 5.0 on Windows

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#16874: https://sports.yahoo.com/dailyfantasy is broken with Tor Browser 5.0 on
Windows
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     Reporter:  gk       |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  defect   |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal   |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor      |    Version:
  Browser                |   Keywords:  tbb-usability-website,
   Resolution:           |  tbb-5.0-regression, TorBrowserTeam201509
Actual Points:           |  Parent ID:
       Points:           |
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Comment (by gk):

 Replying to [comment:6 arthuredelstein]:
 > Replying to [comment:4 gk]:
 > > Thanks for taking this off of my plate and nice analysis! :) So, I
 agree that (1) is the ideal solution but it probably won't happen in the
 near future. I am not so happy about (2) as I bet there are a bunch of
 sites out there that break due to sending such a weird UA and sending none
 is very likely breaking a lot.
 >
 > Sorry I wasn't clear -- the UA I was thinking of sending is
 > `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0`
 > which is the UA we were sending for TBB-4.5.3. The problem I see with
 sending the `38.0` UA is that it gives the false impression that we
 support all 38.0 features.

 I see. The interesting thing is that ICU was already a feature of ESR 31.
 And switching back to ESR 31 leads very likely to users showing up here
 complaining about websites saying they should upgrade their browser...

 > I agree we could try contacting Yahoo, though I haven't found any
 obvious way to do so.

 I tried for quite some while to find a way to send them something without
 the need for me to have a Yahoo account. I have a case number now! We'll
 see if that leads somewhere.

 I guess what I'll do is spending some cycles on the proposed cross-
 compilation in the hope Jacek is fixing for us the remaining things once I
 got that somewhat working. :)

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