219759 - throbber link should point to mozilla.org site

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 214523

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[http://tinymailto.com/oliversl]

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

I think that since MozillaFirebird is a Mozilla.org product, the link in the
throbber should point to a page inside the mozilla.org domain.

"Firebird Help" is a great site, but it already has an entry in the personal
toolbar. Also, all browsers from Mozilla.org have always pointed to
www.mozilla.org, its an historic issue.

The un-educated users won't even find a link to www.mozilla.org from Firebird
Help and will think that the browser is made my texturizer.net, a text editor
company.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

Probably a WONTFIX bug, since it was deliberately changed from a mozilla.org
page to its current one in bug 184085.  At least not until there's more to the
mozilla.org Firebird project pages, to make that worth pointing to instead.

Comment 2

[Pham]

that bug says change it to mozilla.org/products/firebird

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214523 ***

Comment 3

[http://tinymailto.com/oliversl]

Once again, we see a bug that is being generalized.
This bug also states that the current throbber points to texturizer.net

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Oliver, this is clearly a duplicate of bug 214523, which states "Throbber also
needs to be pointed at the products page so users can use it to get updates."
How is pointing the throbber at http://mozilla.org/products/firebird/<something>
more general than your requested "a page inside the mozilla.org domain"? 

If anything, your request was the more generalized and less actionable of the
two - not to mention a couple of months newer and without any developer input,
whereas bug 214523 was reported by the Firebird engineer who intends to fix it
in a very specific, un-generalized way.

Verified duplicate of bug 214523.

Comment 5

[http://tinymailto.com/oliversl]

Hi Asa, well I just wanted to point out that Ben asked for 2 things to be fixed
in 1 bug. Also, starting from 0.7 MF points to texturizer.net. When Ben posted
the bug, the throbber was pointing at mozilla.org.
Its ok marking this as duplicated, thats why I don't changed the status of this
bug. I wanted to show my point of view. Thats all.