1831906 - Update Firefox's update prompt to include a link to the release notes

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Messaging System, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Jason Prickett]

Attachment: update prompt.png

As requested by the community, we should update the "update Firefox" prompt to include a link to the release notes for the version they'll be updating to.

• Update the “Update notification panel”
• Add link to the latest Release notes - the link should direct the user to the release notes of the version that they are updating to (all Firefox Release note)
• Linked text says “Learn more”

Comment 1

[Shane Hughes [:aminomancer]]

Attachment: Bug 1831906 - Add release notes link to update modal prompts. r=#omc-reviewers,bytesized

Comment 2

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

There's probably localization concerns as the release notes bedrock pages might go through a different localization process than the rest of the pages?

Comment 3

[zithro]

I've posted on the community request, didn't get an answer yet but this seems to be going in production soon.

My post summary : "[About dialog - "What's new" link] Add a link to the Release Notes for the -new- FF version"
URL: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/firefox-update-prompt-with-link-to-release-notes/idc-p/31510/highlight/true#M18023

Should I create a new Bug report ?

Comment 4

[Shane Hughes [:aminomancer]]

(In reply to zithro from comment #3)

I've posted on the community request, didn't get an answer yet but this seems to be going in production soon.

My post summary : "[About dialog - "What's new" link] Add a link to the Release Notes for the -new- FF version"
URL: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/firefox-update-prompt-with-link-to-release-notes/idc-p/31510/highlight/true#M18023

Should I create a new Bug report ?

Thanks, but no need, we've already got bug 1831944 for that issue.

Comment 5

[zithro]

Thanks for the link !

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/85ee1489beb6
Add release notes link to update modal prompts. r=bytesized,omc-reviewers,application-update-reviewers,jprickett

Comment 7

[Cristina Horotan [:chorotan]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/85ee1489beb6

Comment 8

[Dianna Smith [:diannaS]]

Shane, a bit of inception here, but did you want to nominate this change in the 116 release notes?

Comment 9

[Shane Hughes [:aminomancer]]

(In reply to Dianna Smith [:diannaS] from comment #8)

Shane, a bit of inception here, but did you want to nominate this change in the 116 release notes?

Haha! Yes. Can you remind me how to nominate it? Thanks!

Comment 10

[Dianna Smith [:diannaS]]

sure! just edit the bug and change the relnote-firefox tracking flag to ? ( then add all the info in the comment). Ill then add it to the nightly release notes, and I will update that flag to + once it makes it all the way to release.

Comment 11

[Shane Hughes [:aminomancer]]

Release Note Request (optional, but appreciated)
[Why is this notable]: When an update is available in English locales, users will now have access to the release notes for the update, in the form of a "Learn More" link in the update notification prompt.
[Affects Firefox for Android]: No
[Suggested wording]: I don't know exactly the most delicate way to phrase this, because we don't want to mislead users in non-EN locales, who will not see the link. The release notes page is only available in English. We have experiment plans to offer the EN release notes to non-EN users, so we can see how it's received. But for now, only EN users will see the link. And since the 116 release notes page will be the same for all locales, AFAIK we can't restrict the note to EN locales? So I guess we have to say "When an update is available in English locales...", but idk the best way to phrase that so it doesn't feel like we're handing out special anglosphere perks 😅
[Links (documentation, blog post, etc)]: Community post fulfilled

Comment 12

[Dianna Smith [:diannaS]]

Added to 116 beta/nightly notes https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/116.0beta/releasenotes/