1636406 - whatsnew URL: %OLD_VERSION% isn't replaced with previous version number

Status: RESOLVED MOVED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Elahn Ientile]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

• Update Firefox Nightly from 77.0-a1-hg20200501r527391-0ubuntu0.18.04.1-umd1 to 78.0-a1-hg20200505r528217-0ubuntu0.18.04.1-umd1
• Open Firefox

firefox-trunk @ deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu bionic main

Actual results:

A tab appears with URL: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/78.0a1/whatsnew/?oldversion=%OLD_VERSION%

Expected results:

%OLD_VERSION% should have been replaced with 77.0a1, resulting in URL: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/78.0a1/whatsnew/?oldversion=77.0a1

This issue has happened before.

This is low priority, as the Cloudflare Worker has been fixed and now hides the effect from users.

Comment 1

[Julien Cristau [:jcristau]]

Olivier or Rico might know what's different about their build.

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Because this bug's Severity is normal and has not been changed, and this bug's priority is -- (none,) indicating it has has not been previously triaged, the bug's Severity is being updated to -- (default, untriaged.)

Comment 3

[Adrian Florinescu [:aflorinescu]]

Let's update severity and move this out of untriaged. I'm gonna assume that we do not have a better component than general for this type of issues hence moving it there for the time being. If there is some specific component that is better suited please do help the triage process and move it towards that.

Comment 4

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

We haven't heard from Olivier and Rico. We suspect this should actually be filed with the Ubuntu package maintainer for the Firefox build that they do.

Comment 5

[Olivier Tilloy]

Sorry for the lack of timely feedback. Is this still an issue? I just installed firefox-trunk 81.0a1 from ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa, and the URL that opens in the first tab is: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/nightly/firstrun/.

Comment 6

[Julien Cristau [:jcristau]]

I think this is about the URL that opens on update, not on firstrun.