2064925 - The strings should be "Share Firefox" on all channels

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Sharing, defect)

Comment 1

[Hackbot]

Triage: this is a branding-term inconsistency in the referral strings, not a functional bug.

Root cause: the referral entry points landed in separate bugs and each picked a different brand term. Only the hamburger-menu string uses -brand-product-name (which is "Firefox" on every channel) — browser/locales/en-US/browser/appmenu.ftl. The rest use -brand-short-name / -brand-shorter-name, which resolve to "Nightly" and "Firefox Developer Edition" under the nightly/aurora/unofficial branding (browser/branding/nightly/locales/en-US/brand.ftl), so those surfaces read "Share Nightly" / "Share Firefox Developer Edition".

Strings to change, all currently Share { -brand-short(er)-name }:

• browser/locales/en-US/browser/appmenu.ftl — appmenu-referrals (Help menu, non-macOS)
• browser/locales/en-US/browser/appmenu.ftl — appmenuitem-share-firefox-title (account panel)
• browser/locales/en-US/browser/menubar.ftl — menu-application-referrals (macOS app menu)
• browser/locales/en-US/browser/menubar.ftl — menu-referrals; note nothing references this ID (the Help menu item uses appmenu-referrals), so it should either be wired up or removed
• browser/locales/en-US/browser/preferences/preferences.ftl — referrals-section-header and referrals-link
• browser/locales/en-US/browser/aboutDialog.ftl — helpus-referrals

Proposed fix: use -brand-product-name in all of them, matching appmenuitem-referrals. These are value changes to existing messages, so if the strings are already exposed to localizers the Fluent policy wants new IDs (e.g. a -2 suffix) rather than an in-place edit — a fluent-reviewer call, given they all landed in July 2026. If IDs are bumped, the data-l10n-id references also need updating in browser/base/content/aboutDialog.xhtml, browser/base/content/browser-menubar.inc.xhtml, browser/base/content/appmenu-viewcache.inc.xhtml and browser/components/preferences/config/account-sync.mjs; otherwise the change is .ftl-only.

Existing coverage: browser/components/referrals/tests/browser/browser_referralsAppMenu.js, browser/components/referrals/tests/browser/browser_referralsAccountMenu.js and browser/base/content/test/about/browser_aboutDialog_referrals.js exercise these entry points but assert element presence, not label text, so a string-only change shouldn't disturb them.

Severity: S4 — cosmetic wording, and only on Nightly/Developer Edition/unofficial builds; release and beta branding already render "Firefox". (Not verified by running a build — this is from reading the .ftl and branding files.)

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Comment 2

[Nathan Barrett [:nbarrett]]

Attachment: Bug 2064925 - Update string to use Firefox for all channels r?#sharing-reviewers

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/fea3d07805fc
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/445377ccbe10
Update string to use Firefox for all channels r=fluent-reviewers,niklas,mconley,bolsson

Comment 4

[Atila Butkovits]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/445377ccbe10