Firefox Beta and Nightly should be visible on main webpage, as well as release notes
Categories
(www.mozilla.org :: Pages & Content, enhancement)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
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(Reporter: lisamiller9891, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36 OPR/77.0.4054.203
Steps to reproduce:
Went to https://www.mozilla.org
Actual results:
Firefox is available to download.
However, Firefox Beta and Nightly are not, unless one scrolls to the very bottom of the page and looks at the inconspicuous footer.
Moreover, "Release Notes" is not visible unless one scrolls down to the "New Features" box and looks at the text button below.
Expected results:
I believe Firefox Beta and Nightly, or at least Beta, is not "only for developers". Many people are willing to take cutting-edge features even if it means suffering minor inconviniences.
On the footer, Beta and Nightly are practically hidden. They're just text and if I didn't Ctrl+F I would have assumed they weren't on the main page.
They should be visible, alongside their icons, on the main page.
Moreover, I think it's common practice that "Release Notes" needs to be shown as a button right below the "Download" button. You can just do that in addition to showing it in the "Newest Features" box. No one is going to complain!
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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Moving it to www.mozilla.org::General, so that our developers can take a look at it, if this is not the right component, please move it to the correct one. Thanks!
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Comment 2•3 years ago
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Thanks for filing this. The Mozilla home page is for content for many different Mozilla products, including Firefox, Pocket, Mozilla VPN and more.
Whilst we do offer links for both Firefox release notes and pre-release Firefox builds in the navigation/footer on every page of the website, real-estate on the home page is quite busy. We have to consider who the largest audience is, and what makes the most sense to promote throughout the year as primary content. The home page does change regularly, so there may be times when certain locales do feature Firefox pre-release builds more predominantly. But I don't think there's an expectation that Beta / Nightly should a top level focus throughout. The main Firefox release is generally what most users coming to the page want, and people looking for pre-release builds can still find them.
As for displaying "release notes" links underneath the download buttons, this is something that we may return to at some time (thanks for the vote!). But that would likely be tackled independently of the home page, as it's a component used throughout the website.
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