1392796 - Remove orphaned /firefox pages and assets

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: Pages & Content, enhancement)

Description

[Jonathan Petto [:jpetto]]

With the Fx Hub being opened up to all locales [1], we can now perform additional cleanup in bedrock.

We should be able to remove the following templates:

/firefox/desktop/*
/firefox/private-browsing.html

We may also be able to remove the old Firefox Family nav.

Any additional pages that can be removed (or at least investigated for removal) should be added to this bug.


[1] https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/5057

Comment 1

[Justin Crawford [:hoosteeno] [:jcrawford]]

For the most part, content in firefox/desktop is low-traffic. We probably can redirect it to similar content without seriously disrupting download funnels or breaking UX. So, some suggested 301 redirects for firefox/desktop/*:

https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/desktop/trust/ -> https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/features/independent/

https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/desktop/tips/ -> https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/features/

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There is an exception, of course. The browser comes with a set of default bookmarks that include firefox/desktop/customize:

https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/locales/generic/profile/bookmarks.html.in#37

There is not now a clear replacement for this content on our marketing web site. The closest thing I know of is about:addons, which speaks to personalization-via-addon. It would be a shame if we had to keep a bunch of assets around in order to keep that old customization page, but I'm not entirely sure what the best way forward is. 

* Change default bookmarks?
* Build a new customize page?

Comment 2

[Jonathan Petto [:jpetto]]

Hm, good catch :hoosteeno. I like your redirect suggestions for /desktop/trust/ and /desktop/tips/. /desktop/fast/ is already being redirected to /features/fast/, so the only one left is /desktop/customize.

There's clearly discussion needed to figure out the best course of action for decommissioning /desktop/customize. The page should probably be re-made at /features/customize, but there's definitely not time for that before the 57 whirlwind consumes all.

I'll file a bug to begin the discussions, and will move forward on this bug, removing what we can. It's a bit dirty to leave one old /desktop page, but I'd rather not wait on the rest of the clean up.

Comment 3

[Jonathan Petto [:jpetto]]

Attachment: GitHub PR

Comment 4

[[github robot]]

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

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/3533c7902b462f09ee05b4119b7bb7f3484ecc38
[fix bug 1392796] Remove old Fx desktop & private browsing pages.

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/49b9ed903a1fe54c2fca9aa4c93e5364fe58277a
Merge pull request #5070 from jpetto/bug-1392796-remove-old-fx-desktop-private-browsing-pages

[fix bug 1392796] Remove old Fx desktop & private browsing pages.