1489845 - Default homepage for Thunderbird 60 leads to Daily instead of Release

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:mstanke][:MikkCZ]]

STR:
1) Install Thunderbird 60.0 (in my case from Fedora repository).
2) Start TB 60.
3) The homepage is "Welcome to Daily".

The homepage is in preferences is set to https://live.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/start?locale=cs&version=60.0&channel=default&os=Linux&buildid=20180829122858, which seems OK. Testing in the browser, https://live.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/start?locale=cs&version=60.0 leads to "Welcome to Daily", while https://live.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/start?locale=cs&version=60.0 yields  "Vítejte v Thunderbird", which is the correct release page.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:MikkCZ][:mstanke] (use needinfo) from comment #0)
> STR:
> 1) Install Thunderbird 60.0 (in my case from Fedora repository).
> 2) Start TB 60.
> 3) The homepage is "Welcome to Daily".
> 
> The homepage is in preferences is set to
> 1. https://live.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/start?locale=cs&version=60.
> 0&channel=default&os=Linux&buildid=20180829122858, which seems OK. Testing
> in the browser,
> 2. https://live.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/start?locale=cs&version=60.0 leads
> to "Welcome to Daily", while
> 3. https://live.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/start?locale=cs&version=60.0 yields
> "Vítejte v Thunderbird", which is the correct release page.

2 and 3 above are the same URL. Which url works correctly?

FWIW I am getting the correct page for beta when using https://live.thunderbird.net/%APP%/start?locale=%LOCALE%&version=%VERSION%&channel=%CHANNEL%&os=%OS%&buildid=%APPBUILDID%

Comment 2

[Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:mstanke][:MikkCZ]]

Sorry, in step 3 the URL should be https://live.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/start?locale=cs&version=52.0 - that one works.

If I copy&paste https://live.thunderbird.net/%APP%/start?locale=%LOCALE%&version=%VERSION%&channel=%CHANNEL%&os=%OS%&buildid=%APPBUILDID% to settings, it than changes to https://live.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/start?locale=cs&version=60.0&channel=default&os=Linux&buildid=20180829122858, which does not work. What do you see in your preferences?

Comment 3

[Andrei Hajdukewycz [:sancus]]

what is channel 'default'? That's not one of our channel names, is it?

Comment 4

[Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:mstanke][:MikkCZ]]

(In reply to Andrei Hajdukewycz [:sancus] from comment #3)
> what is channel 'default'? That's not one of our channel names, is it?

Good catch. If I create a new profile using TB from TAR on thunderbird.net, the preferences is https://live.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/start?locale=cs&version=60.0&channel=release&os=Linux&buildid=20180731173940. I will file a bug to Red Hat Bugzilla than.

Comment 5

[Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:mstanke][:MikkCZ]]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1627472

Comment 6

[Andrei Hajdukewycz [:sancus]]

The way this works right now, it pulls the correct page (for start, release notes, etc) based on the channel name, so if you mess with your channel names, then you'll fall through to Daily, which is the final option when the redirects can't identify your channel, so that people doing local builds or test builds and stuff like that will always get the Daily page.

If there are a lot of distros changing the channel name, we could possibly do something different for os=Linux only, but if this is something only redhat does then it's definitely up to them to fix it.