
Rendering a Cisco ACS page is broken in Firefox 15
Since updating to Firefox 15, a page inside my Cisco ACS appliance does not render: Access Policies > Access Services > Default Network Access > Authorization.
The page has historically taken 15-20 seconds to fully load its contents, and the page now renders as if Firefox 15 got sick of waiting and just displayed what content it had. Is this a problem with rendering the page or perhaps did the value of a timer get changed in Firefox 15?
The Cisco appliance is not public-facing, so I am happy to do a screen-sharing session with a Mozilla engineer if it would help troubleshoot. Thanks.
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Problem exists in Linux build as well. Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0
My workaround is to use chrome. It works but renders really UGLY. (But it renders!)
I am starting to come across similar situations with a few other "blackbox applications" like cisco ACS. I now see the similar problems on some Juniper ScreenOS boxes. In each case I am having to fallback to ff14 or chrome to do the work. (ff14 works consistently. Chrome... seems to work sometimes and sometimes not.)
I had this problem in ACS 5.3 UCP page. After replacing trailing comment chars in /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/ROOT/index.jsp " ->" with " -->" the page is displayed in firefox 15.0.1.
Edeziri
Good to know that may be the issue... but our ACS is an appliance... as are the ScreenOS boxes. The ACS isn't modifiable without significant break-the-support-contract hacking. And the ScreenOS is not changeable at all.
Still broken in 16... Great, now I have to run a version that is 2 versions old.
For what it's worth, I also submitted this as a formal bug in Bugzilla (#789081) and worked with them to pin it down. It looks like they've isolated the problem and are aiming to have a fix in Firefox 17 or 18.
it seems I am now having problem with a page loading in a weird way and have to switch rendering engine to view it like it used to be.