Closed Bug 1514105 Opened 6 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Firefox website has no link to changelog/release notes

Categories

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

Product:
www.mozilla.org
Component:
Pages & Content
Version:
Production
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: jordan.s.palmer, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0 Steps to reproduce: The Firefox website seems to have no link to the changelog/release notes for the latest version. The beta and nightly notes can be found, but even those are buried to the point that you basically have to hunt for them. For the changelog for release channel versions I can't find a link at all though, and have to search for the page through a search engine to actually get to it. Actual results: No link to release notes, and if it exists it is well hidden Expected results: Release note link should be easy to find
Component: Other → Pages & Content
Product: Websites → www.mozilla.org

Has anyone had a chance to look at this yet?

We have and will consider placing a link, likely in the footer, to this page - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/ for broader exposure

I will update this bug with decisions/progress as it occurs

The page you've linked already links to the release notes for each version. I'm talking about the homepage which is https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

There's no way to get to the release notes (or the page you linked) from there, and if there is it is not obvious at all. CTRL + F for "release" and "change" returns nothing, and none of the links in the Firefox menu at the top lead to the release notes. The "Features" page also redirects to the same home page which has no link to the change-log.

I believe for most of Firefox history the change-log/release notes page was prominently featured and easy to access from the main webpage.

I apologize. I misread your comment. In that case I believe a link to that page in the footer would be very helpful, or perhaps in the Firefox menu, or even by the download button as it seems that is a long running convention.

There's now a link to release notes in the main navigation for all pages.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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