27 November 2012, 8:05

Hello Mahoodle (Mahara + Moodle) users,
(sorry for cross-posting)

A serious bug was discovered affecting all Mahoodle users who are using Firefox. It only affects the latest version of Firefox, Firefox 17. If you are using it, you won't be able to log in from Moodle to Mahara due to a change that Mozilla implemented. The error message that you get when you try to jump to Mahara only tells you that you can't log in. But it works fine in another browser.

You can follow the discussion for finding the best solution at https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1082416 and we hope to have a fix soon.

In the meantime, please use another browser.

Cheers

Kristina

27 November 2012, 13:52

Hello,

If you only have Firefox and need to make the connection working quickly before your Moodle and Mahara can be updated, you could also be adventurous and change a setting in your Firefox 17:

1. In Firefox 17 in a new window type "about:config" into the address bar.
2. Accept that you understand the security risk.
3. Search for the string "useragent.complexOverride.moodle". You should only get one line.
4. Double click on "true" in the "Value" column. There is no "Save" button.
5. Close the browser window / tab.

Cheers

Kristina

28 November 2012, 22:03

Hello,

Patches for the Firefox 17 user agent issue for Mahoodle are in git for Mahara 1.5 and 1.6. If you can't wait until we release 1.5.8 and 1.6.3, you can get them from there. More info on the issue and links to the bugs in Firefox and Moodle at https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1082416

See http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-36838 for more info and the Moodle patches for Moodle 2 and 1.9.

Cheers

Kristina

29 November 2012, 10:13

A note further on this. A few hours ago, Firefox decided to revert the change that started this chain of bugs to be found. This will be in Firefox 17.0.1 when it is released.

You are still urged to update when 1.5.8 and 1.6.3 are released to foresee future problems.

Cheers,

Hugh