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Sections cannot be opened on blackberry
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Description

On Blackberry Curve clicking a section to open it causes an infinite loop of page refreshes.

Reported here:
https://twitter.com/thomaspashko/status/205232285266612225

Looking into this, this is because of the use of window.location.replace as introduced by the fix in bug 36848
Using window.location.hash doesn't have this problem

User agent is BlackBerry8530/5.0.0.654 Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/109


Version: unspecified
Severity: major

Details

Reference
bz37059

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 12:29 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz37059.
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Suggested fix in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/8620

Hopefully if this is merged this will be fixed by Monday latest depending on the next deployment window.

Lets not wait a full week to get this out. We can't leave blackberry browsing broken like this for a whole week.

Issue still exists. Verified on device with at BlackBerry Curve 8900

Shame on me for not clearing my cache. All is well post cache clear.