214711 - "Why You Should Switch to Firefox" page misleading

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Walter Wlodarski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

Users argue (http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=17956&highlight=)
that the "Why You Should Switch to the Mozilla Firebird browser" page is
misleading because it discribes a default configuration different from the
actual one. Also the Search bar is mistakenly called the Google bar.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go see http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/why/
2. Read the comments at
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=17956&highlight=




Expected Results:  
Use the official vocabulary for components. Describe things the way they are.

Comment 1

[Brian King [:kinger]]

-> Ben (author)

Comment 2

[Daniel Wang]

> Under 'annoyance eliminator', it says "We've designed Mozilla Firebird so
> that the standard settings offer the least annoyance. [...] Yet the
> default settings for me after installation were to allow all these
> 'annoyances'.

the default setting for firefox is to block pop-up

> Under 'Find Stuff Faster' it says "Ctrl+K takes you to the Google bar.".

that is correct

> [...] Browsers like Mozilla and Opera seem to be focused more on
> esoteric features, at the expense of all-round usability". Yet the
> basic Opera interface is almost identical to Firebird [...]

Opera's interface is massive. The Google box alone has 10+ entries. Rewind and
Fast Forward is geeky. Super search is another esoteric feature. Personally I
think it has the worst usability among all browsers I've tried.

> [...] "Where browsers like Opera may fail on a dynamic page, Mozilla
> Firebird usually succeeds." Opera 7.x is very standards compliant and
> I've never seen it fail on a page that was written correctly. [...]

Opera crashes on simple DOM code.

The page description appears to me to be pretty accurate.

Comment 3

[Walter Wlodarski]

(In reply to comment #2)
> > Under 'Find Stuff Faster' it says "Ctrl+K takes you to the Google bar.".
> 
> that is correct

NO, it takes you to the _Search bar_. 

The Google bar is an optional extension (-> http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/ )
and it has nothing to do with the Search bar. The two are often mistaken one for
the other becaus the default setting for the Search bar is to make a search on
http://www.google.com

Comment 4

[timeless]

oh come on. why should i switch to firebird? it's a dead and unsupported
browser. It was end of lifed at version 0.7.

get rid of this fud and replace it with current fud.

Comment 5

[timeless]

for the record, i reopened specifically about firebird.

Comment 6

[Pham]

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/why/shot-tabs-1b.png
should show title containing firefox
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/why/shot-search-1.png
should show little arrow thing over google
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/why/privacy.gif
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/why/shot-webfeatures-1.gif
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/why/shot-bookmarks-1.png
outdated icons

Also, the more space for pages is ridicolous. No one cares about a measly 4%.
you should remove it

Comment 7

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Closing. Find some other cause to harp on about. 

Comment 8

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Closing. Find some other cause to harp on about.