308531 - Change default home page for SeaMonkey

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Steve Chapel]

Currently, the default home page for SeaMonkey 1.0a builds is
<http://www.mozilla.org/start/>. This is likely to be confusing for many users,
because SeaMonkey is not an official Mozilla browser. It seems like we need a
new home page that contains information appropriate for "Getting Involved with
SeaMonkey".

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

So long we don't have a good page we could use IMHO the same URL as the
throbber, <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/>.

Comment 2

[moz]

In that http://www.mozilla.org/start/ page it says "You've downloaded (or
compiled) a copy of Mozilla" , well, to the user this is not true.

It also says "with one of our stable releases"... and "stable releases" is a
link to  http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/  , which is leading the
user to a no-Seamonkey page (is not even mentioned).

Keep up the good work! Long live Seamonkey!

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

Exactly, we need a new real start apge first. The project page isn't really
helpful for some new user who has downloaded and installed SeaMonkey already.

Comment 4

[Robert Kaiser]

We really should get this into Beta to make branding better...

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

Attachment: new seamonkey start page

replaces mozilla-org/html/start/index.html

Comment 6

[Andrew Schultz]

Attachment: new seamonkey start page

replaced a few more Mozilla with SeaMonkey

Comment 7

[Andrew Schultz]

Attachment: third time's the charm

no deers in this park

Comment 8

[Robert Kaiser]

Comment on attachment 202816 [details]
third time's the charm

This page has been added at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/start/

Now we can look into changing the URL in SeaMonkey code itself :)

Comment 9

[Robert Kaiser]

Attachment: change prefs to new start page

This patch (for both trunk and branch) moves us over to using this new start page in SeaMonkey.

Comment 10

[[e-mail]]

Comment on attachment 202971 [details] [diff] [review]
change prefs to new start page

Nit: you missed the hit in navigator.xul line 596. r+sr=me with that fixed.

Comment 11

[Robert Kaiser]

Comment on attachment 202971 [details] [diff] [review]
change prefs to new start page

requesting branch approval for this SeaMonkey-only string change

Comment 12

[Robert Kaiser]

Checked in the fix on trunk, leaving the bug open for branch checkin.

Comment 13

[Robert Kaiser]

Attachment: v2: change start page URLs in SeaMonkey (checked into trunk)

OK, I think it's better to attach the really checked in version with the navigatorOverlay change that Neil pointed to, and requesting branch approval for this one. This is a simple SeaMonkey-only string change.

Comment 14

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

Comment on attachment 203118 [details] [diff] [review]
v2: change start page URLs in SeaMonkey (checked into trunk)

Re-requesting approval flag that seems most appropriate after [e-mail] cancelled the previous request.

Comment 15

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

Comment on attachment 203118 [details] [diff] [review]
v2: change start page URLs in SeaMonkey (checked into trunk)

I got the email explaining why after the bugmail, so cancelling request.

Comment 16

[Robert Kaiser]

checked into branch (cleared to land by mtschrep in email to seamonkey-council).