Closed Bug 927857 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Fix out of date Fx warning flow

Categories

(support.mozilla.org :: Knowledge Base Software, task, P3)

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED FIXED
2013Q4

People

(Reporter: verdi, Assigned: rrosario)

Details

(Whiteboard: u=user c=wiki p=1 s=2013.22)

Mozilla.org has implemented a check on the download page to see if you are on the latest version. If you are not, they send you to a sumo article https://support.mozilla.org/kb/update-firefox-latest-version

The problem is that if you visit that page with an old enough version of Firefox, SUMO will show a warning that you are out of date and give you a link back to the download page.

Demo: http://people.mozilla.org/~mverdi/video/update-cycle.mp4

There are a couple of things we should consider doing:
1. Don't show the out of date sumo warning on this article since the user is obviously trying to learn about updating.
2. Change the sumo warning to point to the update instructions instead of a download link. One issue here is that if updater mechanism is broken in your copy of Firefox you could get stuck.
3. Create a special sumo page for this link with simplified instructions.
4. Update the current sumo page instead of creating a new one.
5. All of the above?
We just talked about this https://etherpad.mozilla.org/sumo-p-2013-10-17 and decided we should remove the warning from this article and A/B test a much shorter version of the article.
Whiteboard: u=user c=wiki p= s=2013.22
Priority: -- → P3
Target Milestone: --- → 2013Q4
We are going to special case this one KB page so that the warning doesn't show for it. Probably just some css tomfoolery needed. Like add `class="DONT-SHOW-ME-THE-WARNING"` to the `<body/>` and `body.DONT-SHOW-ME-THE-WARNING #warning { display: none; }`

easy peasy.
Whiteboard: u=user c=wiki p= s=2013.22 → u=user c=wiki p=1 s=2013.22
moo
Assignee: nobody → rrosario
Deployed to prod now.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Viewed https://support.mozilla.org/kb/update-firefox-latest-version and got no warning. Other articles display the warning.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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