222801 - The default start page should list available extensions

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

The default start page should, in addition to the current "Congratulations!"
message, list available extensions for the Mozilla Browser, in order of
popularity, and with a brief description.

This would allow features which many people use, but which are not vital to the
browser, to be made into extensions, thus reducing the size of the original
download package. First-time users would be able to easily and immediately
install features they like the look of.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

see http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.4/
There's user start page only for 1.0.x and 1.4.x. We don't have enough resources
to maintain more start pages -> wontfix

contributions always welcome.

Comment 2

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

I was thinking more for Firebird, in relation to bug 216501 comment 66

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

Greg, then we need a user start page for Firebird. Can you discuss with David
Tenser and other Firebird users on whether we should use David's site or whether
the users should get together to build a start page? If you think you have
enough volunteers to do this, reopen this bug and file a separate bug for tracking.