Bug#697875: iceweasel: WebSockets not supported

[Bas Wijnen]

Control: found -1 17.0.6esr-1

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 07:00:53PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > > > > It seems that iceweasel doesn't support WebSockets while at least
> > > > > the official 10.0 version (and older) do support it.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The 18.0 version in experimental also still has the same problem.
> > > > 
> > > > Do you have a testcase?
> > > 
> > > Some tests:
> > > http://jimbergman.net/websocket-web-browser-test/
> > > http://html5demos.com/web-socket
> > > https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/browserquest/
> > > http://html5test.com has a test for it.

For me, those tests also failed.  However, all over the web mozilla is
claimed to support them.  So I checked the source, and found that it is
a setting, network.websockets.enabled, which is on by default, but was
off on my machine.  I do not know how that happened; I sure didn't
change it.

Anyway, for people who want to fix this, you need to change it
low-level, because there is no button for it in the preferences window.
So go to about:config, look for websocket and toggle the setting.  That
did the trick for me, anyway.

Still it would be good to know why this happened, and how to make it
unhappen automatically.  If there is no other way, the above workaround
should be advertised broadly, but it would be better to fix it without
user interaction, IMO.

Thanks,
Bas
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