1436973 - firefox/unsupported pages still feature old Firefox logo

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Alex Gibson [:agibson]]

These URLs we're used (from what I'm guessing) for old popup warnings. Looking through git history, they seem to come from the old legacy PHP site. The last bug I can trace is bug 915867 (funnily enough, updating the logo the last time it changed).

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/unsupported/warning/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/unsupported/EOL/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/unsupported/mac/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/unsupported/details/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/unsupported/win/

We may be fine to remove these URLs now?

Comment 1

[Alex Gibson [:agibson]]

:pmac - do you know if any of these old URLs are still in use? Can we safely retire them?

Comment 2

[Paul [:pmac] McLanahan]

I don't know. IIRC they used to be loaded by some in-product popups. I think we should check with someone on the Firefox team who would know. I'm not really sure who that would be however...

Comment 3

[Alex Gibson [:agibson]]

I can't see any reference to these pages when searching on https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/, but I'll still see if I can find out from someone who may know.

Comment 4

[Alex Gibson [:agibson]]

Ok I asked in #firefox on Slack and these URLs may well be fine to remove now:

"mossop [4:34 PM] Those look like things that the software updater might display, maybe @mhowell knows"

mhowell [4:35 PM]
Wow, I've never seen any of those. I wonder if these are what we used to show as "billboards" in the old update UI.

If so, that feature is gone: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1296207

agibson [4:36 PM]
interestingly the view name for those URLs is windows_billboards

mhowell [4:37 PM]
Oh, lol, that's probably it then.
That would make these safe to remove.

Comment 5

[Paul [:pmac] McLanahan]

Cool. "billboards" gels with some of the bugs I've found when searching for this. I believe you're right. It looks like the similar URL "firefox/unsupported-systems/" is different and should stay, but the ones you've listed in comment #0 are good to be removed as far as I can tell. Thanks for your diligence!

Comment 6

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Bug 774509 and bug 741004 were implemented as a hotfix extension and didn't use the billboard support but created their own frame instead. Either way these are both quite old.

Comment 7

[Alex Gibson [:agibson]]

I've chatted with :pmac about what to do with these old URLs, and we decided the most suitable course of action here is to redirct to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/unsupported-systems/ (rather than 404 or 410 for example). If nothing else, this will help ensure that this change remains more easily discoverable in our history.

Comment 8

[GitHub Bugzilla PR Linker]

Attachment: Link to GitHub pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/5473

Comment 9

[[github robot]]

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

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/eecae13241f82d11b5cd5a54bda244919e8091f2
[fix bug 1436973] Decommission legacy /firefox/unsupported/ URLs