1417758 - Visit mozilla.org from Indonesia but directed to en-US page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Benny Chandra]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 5.0.2; Mobile; rv:56.0) Gecko/56.0 Firefox/56.0
Build ID: 20170922214822

Steps to reproduce:

I visited mozilla.org/firefox from Indonesia


Actual results:

It automatically directed me to en-US page (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/)


Expected results:

I think it should detected my location and automatically direct me and other visitors from Indonesia to ID page (https://www.mozilla.org/id/firefox/)

Comment 1

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod] (OOO July 12–20)]

Setting Accept Languages to "id", I get correctly redirected to Indonesian, so I don't think this is a mozilla.org bug

What's your Accept-Languages if you visit this page?
http://www.reliply.org/tools/requestheaders.php

Comment 2

[Benny Chandra]

flod,
I filled this bug because I think www.mozilla.org should detect and redirect visitors based on their current locations.

So, do you mean it shouldn't?

Comment 3

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

I don't think location-based redirect would work for everyone, particularly those who are travelling often. The browser's preferred locale should be a clear intention (like Do Not Track) of which language do they want to use.

Comment 4

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod] (OOO July 12–20)]

(In reply to Benny Chandra from comment #2)
> flod,
> I filled this bug because I think www.mozilla.org should detect and redirect
> visitors based on their current locations.

I didn't realize you were talking about location. No, personally I don't think that's the right approach, website should respect my language choice.

The only place where that might make sense it's the download page, but as a message (you're downloading English but you're in Indonesia, there's also version X and Y), not as a redirect.

Comment 5

[Benny Chandra]

(In reply to Francesco Lodolo [:flod] (traveling, slow answers, back Nov 22) from comment #4)
> (In reply to Benny Chandra from comment #2)
> > flod,
> > I filled this bug because I think www.mozilla.org should detect and redirect
> > visitors based on their current locations.
> 
> I didn't realize you were talking about location. No, personally I don't
> think that's the right approach, website should respect my language choice.
> 
> The only place where that might make sense it's the download page, but as a
> message (you're downloading English but you're in Indonesia, there's also
> version X and Y), not as a redirect.

Alright then. Understood.

So, it looks like not a bug. I'll close this one.