184085 - Update start page to a Firebird specific page

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark Barnes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029 Phoenix/0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029 Phoenix/0.4

I previoously had Netscape 7.0 installed.

Just now, I installed Mozilla 1.2.1, then I installed Phoenix 0.4.
When Phoenix comes up, the start page indicates I have an old version
of Mozilla and suggests I download and install 1.2.1.  But I just
installed it prior to installing Phoenix.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Just start Phoenix with the default start page.

Actual Results:  
When Phoenix comes up, the start page indicates I have an old version
of Mozilla and suggests I download and install 1.2.1.  But I just
installed it prior to installing Phoenix.


When I installed Mozilla 1.2.1, I specified my own choice for the installation
directory.

Since Phoenix doesn't appear to have an installer, I unzipped it into a
directory and then created a shortcut to the phoenix.exe file (on my desktop.)

Is it possible Phoenix is trying to use the version of Mozilla installed when I
installed Netscape 7.0???  How does Phoenix decide where to find Mozilla???

Comment 1

[David Tenser [:djst]]

This is a known issue. Appearantly, Blake changed the start page today and then
reverted back after 30 minutes or so.

Anyway, I could not find a duplicate so I'm marking this as NEW. Changing summary.

Setting target milestone to 0.5 so Blake doesn't miss this bug report when the
start page really is fixed. :)

Comment 2

[Blake Ross]

For 0.5, we're going to try to set up a Phoenix redirect at the mozilla.org
start page since changing the homepage is actually more complicated than you
might think.

Comment 3

[Sébastien Delahaye]

*** Bug 186653 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[noririty]

Attachment: fix

Set Phoenix Help as default homepage

Comment 5

[David Hallowell]

Updating summary for Firebird™ :)

Comment 6

[Jason Kersey]

I think you want to clear this with david first.  This is going to suck down
bandwidth like nothing else before.

Comment 7

[David Tenser [:djst]]

No problem (I hope), I've been asked before.

Comment 8

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

Now that Firebird is going to be the main Mozilla browser, perhaps this is no
longer necessary?

Comment 9

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

All entries containing "http://texturizer.net/phoenix/index.html" should be
updated to "http://texturizer.net/firebird/index.html"

The patch also needs some refreshment, because especially all.js has seen a lot
of new revisions.

Comment 10

[Henrik Gemal]

the "/index.html" should also be dropped. It will limit things, if the siteowner
decides to convert his site into php fx "/index.php"

It should just be "/"

Comment 11

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Attachment: Updated patch

This fixes the issues raised in comment 9 and comment 10.

Comment 12

[noririty]

taking

Comment 13

[noririty]

checked in.

Comment 14

[David Hallowell]

I think that the throbber should goto the Firebird project page because I think
the throbber should always lead to the official homepage of the browser.

However I think the default homepage going to Firebird Help is a great idea.

Comment 15

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Verifying.

Localized versions of Mozilla Firebird should of course change the startup page
to the correct language of Mozilla Firebird Help.