Take httponly off of session cookies so that the websocket works in firefox 3.x. XSS attacks would now be easier to exploit if found. A possible replacement for opening this security hole is to set a new cookie value for Firefox users that stores a randomly generated key which would give a websocket with that key access.

config/initializers/session_store.rb

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 # Be sure to restart your server when you modify this file.
 
-Rails.application.config.session_store :cookie_store, :key => '_diaspora_session'
+Rails.application.config.session_store :cookie_store, :key => '_diaspora_session', :httponly => false
 
 # Use the database for sessions instead of the cookie-based default,
 # which shouldn't be used to store highly confidential information

script/websocket_server.rb

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def write_pidfile
 end
 
 def debug_pp thing
-  pp thing if APP_CONFIG[:socket_debug] || ENV[:SOCKET_DEBUG]
+  pp thing if APP_CONFIG[:socket_debug] || ENV['SOCKET_DEBUG']
 end
 
 CHANNEL = Magent::GenericChannel.new('websocket')