[TYPO3-dev] BE_USER object weirdness with Firefox 3

[Francois Suter]

Hi all,

I have encountered a weird behavior. I have been working recently on an 
extension that inserts Google Analytics code into a page. This extension 
skips doing this when a BE user is logged in by testing the existence of 
the BE_USER object, as

if (is_object($GLOBALS['BE_USER'])) ...

Now it appears that this works fine in general, except with Firefox 3 
(all platforms). In the case of FF3, the BE_USER object exists although 
empty.

Of course the workaround is easy and consists of testing whether the 
BE_USER->user array is filled with significant info, but the behavior is 
surprising and I wanted to know if anyone had an idea where it could 
come from.

Cheers

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch