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The "Compare your hardware to that of other Steam users" link doesn't work

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#6540 · opened 2019-09-28 by Managor · updated 2023-06-18 · 7 comments · github
MManagor 2019-09-28 github

Your system information

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

When clicking on the "Compare your hardware to that of other Steam users" button on the System information window, it takes you to www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html which redirects to the front page of Steam

Here's video of it. https://youtu.be/yLpj-aggtF8

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Go to Help -> System Information
  2. Click on the underlined link at the bottom of the window
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2019-09-28 github

Works as expected here.

MManagor 2019-09-28 github

Did a small test. Opening the www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html link on Chromium works but opening the link with Firefox brings you to the steam front page.

https://youtu.be/jzfKlVt0nDU

I tested it on an incognito tab on firefox too just to make sure and it still brings me to the front page
Reproduced it on my laptop too

MManagor 2019-09-29 github

I'm assuming the problem might be in the differences in how Firefox and Chromium handle HTTP 302. I have no idea why the response headers differ on the browsers though
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MManagor 2019-09-29 github

I found the culprit. It's the https everywhere addon. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-everywhere/reviews/

A simple fix for this would be to have the UI link to point to the correct website and not the one that needs redirecting. That being https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2022-02-05 github

Hello @Managor, are you still experiencing this issue on an up to date system?

MManagor 2022-02-07 github

Yes, this issue is still present.

MManagor 2023-06-18 github

This has been fixed. The stats open up in steam itself so https everywhere can't affect it any more

Nothing extracted yet.