1311121 - Links to past Firefox for Android release notes all point to current version

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: Information Architecture & UX, defect)

Description

[Liz Henry (:lizzard)]

This page lists all the Firefox releases, with links to release notes for each version: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/  

If you click through to 48.0.1, for example, you will see the correct release notes for 48.0.1 Firefox (desktop):
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/48.0.1/releasenotes/

If you click the tab on that page (or on any other version's relnote page) for Android, you end up on the current release's Android release notes for 49:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/49.0/releasenotes/

Comment 1

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

Yeah it's a confusing UI. Those are actually not tabs but just links to the latest release notes. Personally I think the navigation bar should be simply removed.

Comment 2

[Liz Henry (:lizzard)]

I do think we should preserve some way to navigate to Fennec release notes for previous versions - from the desktop notes, and from some top level page like https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/ .

Comment 4

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

In the old PHP-based release notes, a desktop version and Android version were associated so the navigation wasn't a issue. You can still test the behaviour with Japanese release notes:

https://www.mozilla.jp/firefox/48.0.1/releasenotes/ - click on the "Android 版" blue button and you will see the 48.0 Android release notes. Then if you click on the "デスクトップ版" button, you will see the 48.0.1 desktop release notes.

Can we probably do the same thing using the Ship-It app? iOS versions are not matching up with others, but at least desktop and Android can be linked each other like this.

Comment 5

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

I think this can be solved at Bedrock side simply by comparing desktop and Android version numbers. Will take a look later.

https://product-details.mozilla.org/1.0/firefox_history_stability_releases.json
https://product-details.mozilla.org/1.0/mobile_history_stability_releases.json

Comment 6

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

Attachment: pull request

Comment 7

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/21d27ed2e1dbf240b86c46d623515ac4061d9647
Fix Bug 1311121 - Links to past Firefox for Android release notes all point to current version

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/ed157f92f6b895c57cd7bbf87c0ada78bb9762df
Merge pull request #4833 from kyoshino/bug-1311121-notes-equivalent-url

Fix Bug 1311121 - Links to past Firefox for Android release notes all point to current version