752073 - "Check to see if your plugins are up to date" sends me to invalid URL

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 752161

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Paul]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0
Build ID: 20120312181643

Steps to reproduce:

Click "Check to see if your plugins are up to date" in Add-ons Manager Plugins page.


Actual results:

Sent to invalid URL:

https://www.mozilla.com/en/404


Expected results:

Should have been sent to:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/

Comment 1

[Giuliano Masseroni [:jooliaan]]

I confirm this bug and it is still present in Firefox 12.

Comment 2

[Michele Rodaro [michro]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0

This bug affects all operating systems. It happens on Windows / Linux / Mac.

Comment 3

[Greg F]

I have this same issue with: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120504 Firefox/14.0a2

Comment 4

[Suny]

Have same problem with FF 12. Gone to about:config and looked at:

plugins.update.url;https://www.mozilla.com/%LOCALE%/plugincheck/

however, i am redirected to the 404. typing this address manually takes me to the proper site for both Http and Https.
So question is: how is link not "reading" about:config string for this url?
(I know, I am just humanizing computer behavior lol)

Keep up the good work!

Comment 6

[Paul]

Bug reporting has always seemed a curious thing to me.  For example, this bug, 752073, is a 'duplicate' of of bug 752161, yet it seems the other way around to me.

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

The reason why I duped this report to bug 752161 is that:
- This one if reported to the product Firefox and that is wrong. There is nothing wrong with the source Firefox source code but it's instead a bug with the website.
bug 752161 is already in the right product

- bug 752161 is already confirmed
- bug 752161 contains the right analysis of the issue (https redirect issue)
- there is already a bug duped to bug 752161 and it's in most cases better to collect the dupes in one single bug.

Anyway, thanks for the bug report !