1467698 - Firefox simplified chinese version home page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1590128

(Mozilla Localizations :: zh-CN / Chinese (Simplified), defect)

Description

[Lu Wei]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Build ID: 20180605153619

Steps to reproduce:

Install new Firefox in simplified chinese environment:
type in www.mozilla.org
is redirected to https://www.firefox.com.cn/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=mozilla.org
click download, the address is https://download-ssl.firefox.com.cn/releases-sha2/stub/official/zh-CN/Firefox-latest.exe
Installed normally.
Then open Firefox.


Actual results:

Firefox opened with the home page https://home.firefoxchina.cn/ , which is a web portal full of mess and advertisements. 


Expected results:

I expect a clean style home page like english version. The homepage now will make people like me uninstall Firefox immediately. For people not like me, they will probably get an impression like: "hmm, just another browser bundled with these things. Open source software is just so so."

Comment 1

[Lu Wei]

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Comment 2

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

This is not really Tech Evangelism, not sure where it belongs though.

Comment 3

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Looks like it is inactive, closing.

Comment 4

[arthur200126]

It’s still not resolved; it actually made Solidot (think Chinese slashdot) news today.

Other defects of the zh-CN langpack includes container tabs being disabled. I don’t think this is something you devs can do however; Mozilla China is a complicated corporate entity that, among other things that goes against what Mozilla usually stands for, seems to have Chinese government investment. It is expected to make AD revenue and disable some security features (just like when Chinese laptops disabled AES-NI by default in CMOS, some without a way to enable it.)

Anyway I don’t think this is something you devs at Mozilla can fix. Walkouts stopped the Dragonfly search at Google, but I doubt if it can stop something that’s been there forever. The best you can do is to make a separate zh-SG locale: they use simplified Chinese script and can share a lot of strings with zh-CN. And you won’t be obliged to add all these BS. (This is how Android users avoided China specific BS in some apps. )

Comment 5

[Lu Wei]

Anyone could make a patch and push it to the code review process? No use of just complaining.

Comment 6

[YF (Yang)]

(In reply to Lu Wei from comment #5)

Anyone could make a patch and push it to the code review process? No use of just complaining.

I guess it will eventually need Mozilla Online collaboration for China Edition production process, anyway.

Comment 7

[Shaohua Wen]

@l10n can community make decision for this one?

Comment 8

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

As indicated in bug 1590128, this is not a decision that l10n can make, it's a product decision.
Please let's focus the conversation in one place.