1430887 - Determine the fate of the Firefox Geolocation page

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

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

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1428783 +++

There's a legacy page about Geolocation [1] in Firefox that has been orphaned for a number of years now:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/geolocation/

The page serve as a technical/informative FAQ, but the information has not been updated in a number of years and is likely out of date. Unless we have a good reason to keep the page around, I'd suggest SUMO is a better place for this info. 

We should decommission this page and redirect to a page on SUMO containing the same information.

Comment 1

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

Just going to add that this is in-product content. See https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?q=browser.geolocation.warning.infoURL&redirect=false. 

You can trigger the dialog that links to this content by viewing a site that makes a request for geolocation data. See "Learn More" link in this image: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8940877

Comment 2

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

I have requested access to SUMO KB editing in order to create the article described in comment 0.

Comment 3

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

I created an article and submitted for review: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/does-firefox-share-my-location-web-sites

Comment 4

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

The article in comment 3 has been published. This URL can be redirected.

Comment 5

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

:pdol, can you confirm that this redirection is OK with you? This is in-product content pointing at a page on www that we'd like to redirect to an article on SUMO.

This bug is very similar to bug 1428783, we may wish to bundle them.

Comment 6

[GitHub Bugzilla PR Linker]

Attachment: Link to GitHub pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/5475

Comment 7

[Alex Gibson [:agibson]]

Pull request above to remove this page - awaiting confirmation from :pdol before we merge.

Comment 8

[Peter Dolanjski [:pdol]]

Confirmed, sorry for delay.

Comment 9

[[github robot]]

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

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/1c6b5c6bf22bc39f30ee527621ddee5e1a4a73f1
[fix bug 1430887] Decommission /firefox/geolocation/ page