1491332 - Reset legacy homepages to about:home - again

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1077740 +++

The original bug didn't touch *.start*.mozilla.com URLs, which was the format used from Firefox 1.0 through 3.6.x.  

We still see traffic to start.mozilla.org (and DNS for start*.mozilla.com is currently broken, but will be fixed (and will be actively monitored once bug 1491329 gets resolved).  That's even from Fx62 users.

I suspect the best fix will be to dust off that old migration code, fix it to also clean up .com URLs, and add it to the end of migrateUI with a new version.  It's pretty self-contained, so if it's resolved quickly we could potentially uplift ot Fx63, but that's not a blocker.  That we still have folks on Fx62 with start.mozilla.org suggests we should re-migrate everyone if needed.

Comment 1

[Chris More [:cmore]]

Also, we should probably reset to about:newtab instead of about:home since about:home is about:newtab now.

Comment 2

[Kamalesh Palanisamy]

Hello,
I am new to mozilla. I have signed up for bugzilla with an intention to contibute to mozilla. Can you help me out how to get started with this bug.

Comment 3

[:Gijs (out for now; he/him)]

(In reply to Chris More [:cmore] from comment #1)
> Also, we should probably reset to about:newtab instead of about:home since
> about:home is about:newtab now.

The default is about:home, so we should stick with that for now. If we want to unify the two and remove the about:home alias, we should probably do it somewhere else (as it'll need a separate migration).

Comment 4

[Chris More [:cmore]]

(In reply to :Gijs (he/him) from comment #3)
> (In reply to Chris More [:cmore] from comment #1)
> > Also, we should probably reset to about:newtab instead of about:home since
> > about:home is about:newtab now.
> 
> The default is about:home, so we should stick with that for now. If we want
> to unify the two and remove the about:home alias, we should probably do it
> somewhere else (as it'll need a separate migration).

Makes sense and thanks for the clarification.

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Probably an easy fix to pick up in the 68 cycle, and clean up bogus entries.

Comment 6

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

Attachment: Bug 1491332 - Reset legacy homepages to about:home - again

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Comment 7

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/eb812213b25f
Reset legacy homepages to about:home - again r=dao

Comment 8

[Stefan Hindli [:stefan_hindli]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/eb812213b25f